'E.Patrick Johnson' in OBA Collectie

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on...

Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of...

Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops...

This title includes oral histories that reveal a diverse, thriving, overlooked community. Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, "Sweet Tea" collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and conti...

Critiquing queer theory's omissions in race and class, E. Patrick Johnson (2001) suggests "quare" studies, a turn similar to that being made from feminism to womanism. I fully embrace Johnson s theorizing. But to make relevant the worlds lying beyond th...