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

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 

Table of Contents:
Foreword / Cathy J. Cohen  xi Acknowledgments  xv Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson  1 1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow / Jafari S. Allen  27 2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead: Spectacular Absence and Postracialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory / Alison Reed  48 3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans*Analytic / Kai M. Green  65 4. Gender Trouble in Triton / C. Riley Snorton  83 5. Reggaetón's Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera  95 6. Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater / Lyndon K. Gill  113 7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographers of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley  131 8. Toward a Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil / Tanya Saunders  147 9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and Heteroperpetually Ever After / La Marr Jurelle Bruce  166 10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability / Kortney Ziegler  196 11. Let's Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain / Jennifer Declue  216 12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex / Marlon M. Bailey  239 13. Black Data / Shaka McGlotten  262 14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism / Zachary Blair  287 15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot / Kwama Holmes  304 16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness / Treva Ellison  323 17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black / Amber Jamilla Musser  346 18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness / Kaila Adia Story  362 19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive / Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace  380 Bibliography  395 Contributors  409 Index  415