Queer in black and white

Description:

This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same-sex desire. The author explores ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity. She shows that representations of interracial desire do not follow the logic of racial exclusion. Instead they are metaphorical and anti-biological. Rather than diluting race, interracial desire makes race visible. By invoking the interracial, black gay and lesbian artists can remake our conception of blackness. Works considered include Marlon Riggs's film Tongues Untied; James Baldwin's novel Another Country; Ann Shockley's novel Loving Her; Cheryl Dunye's "mockumentary" The Watermelon Woman; and Me'Shell NdegéOcello's album Plantation Lullabies.

subjects: African Americans,  Homosexuality in motion pictures,  African American authors,  Race identity,  Intellectual life,  History and criticism,  Homosexuality in music,  Race relations in literature,  American fiction,  Homosexuality in literature,  Race relations in motion pictures,  Queer theory,  African American gays,  African americans, intellectual life,  African americans, race identity,  American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism