No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies

by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor)

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 the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous and important field of study. Topics include "raw" sex, pornography, the carceral state, gentrification, gender nonconformity, social media, the relationship between black feminist studies and black trans studies, the black queer experience throughout the black diaspora, and queer music, film, dance, and theater. The contributors both disprove naysayers who believed black queer studies to be a passing trend and respond to critiques of the field's early U.S. bias. Deferring to the past while pointing to the future, No Tea, No Shade pushes black queer studies in new and exciting directions.

Contributors. Jafari S. Allen, Marlon M. Bailey, Zachary Shane Kalish Blair, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Cathy J. Cohen, Jennifer DeClue, Treva Ellison, Lyndon K. Gill, Kai M. Green, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kwame Holmes, E. Patrick Johnson, Shaka McGlotten, Amber Jamilla Musser, Alison Reed, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Tanya Saunders, C. Riley Snorton, Kaila Story, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Julia Roxanne Wallace, Kortney Ziegler
 

Genres: Nonfiction, LGBT, Race, Queer, Anti Racist, Social Justice, Essays

440 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

E. Patrick Johnson (Ph.D.) is an African-American performance artist, ethnographer, and scholar.

Reviews

[Chloë Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

i think this is an overall excellent, moving, and motivational anthology that runs the gammit in perspective and approach to Black queer studies. they move seamlessly across interdisciplinary interventions, with the variant authors engaging in dynamic and multifaceted approaches to the field of queer studies, the work of reading queer interventions and the way queer life manifests. it is salient and moving and so well done and beautifully sits in the modern moment even in the years after its writing has ceased. i turned to it in bits and pieces across the past few months, reading and listening to the essays as if they were each little short stories. it has been an encouraging and beautiful constant companion as i move through life and manifest my work academically. for that i am grateful. 5 stars

[Kate Richardson]

I'm not going to give this a rating since it really depended on the essay. Some of them were very interesting and introduced me to new ideas. Some of them meant very little to someone outside of this academy without knowledge of the background readings the author was talking about. Some of them were not meant for someone as scientifically minded as me.

[Kay · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm sorry I bailed.

[Mills College Library]

306.76608 N7396 2016