L H Stallings
Biographic Data
| ID | 213060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L H Stallings |
| GIVEN NAMES | L H |
| FAMILY NAME | Stallings |
| SIGNATURE | STALLINGS L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Dontcha Wanna Boogie Woogie”
Building upon Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s theory of the choreopoem as a queer form emphasizing a poetics of difference, as well as Omi Osun Jones’s concept of theatrical jazz, this article reassesses Ntozake Shange’s boogie woogie landscapes to argue that the choreopoem serves as an embodied futurist solution for resolving cisgender bias, as well as femme phobia and transphobia in theater, film, and television casting and performance training
The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South
From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L. H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resist…
Afterword
Am I a Faggot
Research Article| April 01 2019 AM I A FAGGOT? L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings is professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mutha Is Half a Word! Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (2007). Her second book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (2015), explores how black sexual cultures produce radical ideologies about la…
Cathy Cohen
Research Article| January 01 2019 Cathy Cohen: The Quiet Storm Scholar That Queer Theory Needed L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings is professor of women’s studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mutha Is Half a Word! Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Ohio State University Press, 2007). Her second book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (Universi…
Chitlins Make You Funky
This creative, critical piece uses wild theory to address camp and camp scholarship for its lackluster attention to issues of race, embodied experience, and appropriation as it imagines a universal monolithic gay identity that erases cultural differences culled from race and gender. I provide close readings of black cult figures and texts that I argue combine camp and chitlin circuit elements (the Harlem Globetrotters, Cheech and Chong’s “Basketb…
Antiblack Racism and the Metalanguage of Sexuality
This essay engages Evelyn Higginbotham’s article, “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race,” in which she challenges approaches to studying black women’s lives and culture in the fields of history and women’s studies. Likewise, our essay examines the usefulness and implications of Higginbotham’s theory for black sexuality studies and queer-of-color critiques. Thus, we suggest that antiblack racism functions as a metalanguage…
Race, Pornography, and Desire: A TBS Roundtable
These four black feminist scholars come together here despite (and also, perhaps, as a result of) centuries of silencing and censoring of black female and queer sexualities in the name of respectab
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Funk, this book exclaims, is a multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology, drugs, energy, time, and the seeds of revolutionary ideas for black movements. But funk is also an experience to feel, to hear, to touch and taste, and this book uses funk in all its iterations as an innovation in black studies. The b…
“Think Galactic. Or Your World is Lost”: The Boundaries of Science and Art and Samuel Delany’s New Poetics
Critical thinking and creative thinking are not the same, nor are the resulting worlds and ways of being that each process brings to bear. In this essay, I examine Samuel Delany’s Empire Star and Babel-17 for the way each challenges the neoliberal rhetorical privileging of critical thinking skills in the valuation of the arts and humanities in U.S. society. Delany uses space exploration and espionage as metaphors for advancements in science and t…
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination L. H. Stallings (bio) Most recently, Cathy Cohen's Democracy Remixed has eloquently captured how multiple moral panics about hip hop shape black politics, and so it seems necessary to make more comprehensible the nature of hip hop as a movement with different aims and levels. As with most black liberation movements, we must consider the above ground and below ground tactics. Hip hop traffics in above grou…
Make It Funky Now: The Birth of Funk Studies
Bi bell: Spirituality and the Sexual Intellectual
Currently, there is very little research and scholarship on spirituality and bisexuality in Black American life and culture. Although numerous books and essays on Black theology, Black liberation theology and spirituality exist, these collections’ singular focus remains on the politics of race. Only recently has there been a growing trend to study gender and sexuality as part of these theologies. Even then the attention to bisexuality in dominant…
Punked for Life: Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle and Radical Black Masculinities
Punked for Life:Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle and Radical Black Masculinities L. H. Stallings (bio) After a few moments I'd relax and settle into a barely acceptable, simple side-to-side step, dubbed by the locals the white boy shuffle. I wasn't funky, but I was no longer disrupting the groove. (Beatty 123) I was beating Godzilla into the sea with a powerful stream of radioactive turtle piss when I awoke to find Yoshiko's index finger wormi…
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination L. H. Stallings (bio) Most recently, Cathy Cohen's Democracy Remixed has eloquently captured how multiple moral panics about hip hop shape black politics, and so it seems necessary to make more comprehensible the nature of hip hop as a movement with different aims and levels. As with most black liberation movements, we must consider the above ground and below ground tactics. Hip hop traffics in above grou…
Race, Pornography, and Desire: A TBS Roundtable
These four black feminist scholars come together here despite (and also, perhaps, as a result of) centuries of silencing and censoring of black female and queer sexualities in the name of respectab
Am I a Faggot
Research Article| April 01 2019 AM I A FAGGOT? L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings is professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mutha Is Half a Word! Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (2007). Her second book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (2015), explores how black sexual cultures produce radical ideologies about la…
Punked for Life: Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle and Radical Black Masculinities
Punked for Life:Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle and Radical Black Masculinities L. H. Stallings (bio) After a few moments I'd relax and settle into a barely acceptable, simple side-to-side step, dubbed by the locals the white boy shuffle. I wasn't funky, but I was no longer disrupting the groove. (Beatty 123) I was beating Godzilla into the sea with a powerful stream of radioactive turtle piss when I awoke to find Yoshiko's index finger wormi…
Make It Funky Now: The Birth of Funk Studies
Bi bell: Spirituality and the Sexual Intellectual
Currently, there is very little research and scholarship on spirituality and bisexuality in Black American life and culture. Although numerous books and essays on Black theology, Black liberation theology and spirituality exist, these collections’ singular focus remains on the politics of race. Only recently has there been a growing trend to study gender and sexuality as part of these theologies. Even then the attention to bisexuality in dominant…
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination L. H. Stallings (bio) Most recently, Cathy Cohen's Democracy Remixed has eloquently captured how multiple moral panics about hip hop shape black politics, and so it seems necessary to make more comprehensible the nature of hip hop as a movement with different aims and levels. As with most black liberation movements, we must consider the above ground and below ground tactics. Hip hop traffics in above grou…
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Funk, this book exclaims, is a multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology, drugs, energy, time, and the seeds of revolutionary ideas for black movements. But funk is also an experience to feel, to hear, to touch and taste, and this book uses funk in all its iterations as an innovation in black studies. The b…
“Think Galactic. Or Your World is Lost”: The Boundaries of Science and Art and Samuel Delany’s New Poetics
Critical thinking and creative thinking are not the same, nor are the resulting worlds and ways of being that each process brings to bear. In this essay, I examine Samuel Delany’s Empire Star and Babel-17 for the way each challenges the neoliberal rhetorical privileging of critical thinking skills in the valuation of the arts and humanities in U.S. society. Delany uses space exploration and espionage as metaphors for advancements in science and t…
Race, Pornography, and Desire: A TBS Roundtable
These four black feminist scholars come together here despite (and also, perhaps, as a result of) centuries of silencing and censoring of black female and queer sexualities in the name of respectab
Antiblack Racism and the Metalanguage of Sexuality
This essay engages Evelyn Higginbotham’s article, “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race,” in which she challenges approaches to studying black women’s lives and culture in the fields of history and women’s studies. Likewise, our essay examines the usefulness and implications of Higginbotham’s theory for black sexuality studies and queer-of-color critiques. Thus, we suggest that antiblack racism functions as a metalanguage…
Chitlins Make You Funky
This creative, critical piece uses wild theory to address camp and camp scholarship for its lackluster attention to issues of race, embodied experience, and appropriation as it imagines a universal monolithic gay identity that erases cultural differences culled from race and gender. I provide close readings of black cult figures and texts that I argue combine camp and chitlin circuit elements (the Harlem Globetrotters, Cheech and Chong’s “Basketb…
Afterword
Am I a Faggot
Research Article| April 01 2019 AM I A FAGGOT? L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings is professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mutha Is Half a Word! Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (2007). Her second book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (2015), explores how black sexual cultures produce radical ideologies about la…
Cathy Cohen
Research Article| January 01 2019 Cathy Cohen: The Quiet Storm Scholar That Queer Theory Needed L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings L. H. Stallings is professor of women’s studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mutha Is Half a Word! Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Ohio State University Press, 2007). Her second book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (Universi…
A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South
From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L. H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resist…
The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
“Dontcha Wanna Boogie Woogie”
Building upon Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s theory of the choreopoem as a queer form emphasizing a poetics of difference, as well as Omi Osun Jones’s concept of theatrical jazz, this article reassesses Ntozake Shange’s boogie woogie landscapes to argue that the choreopoem serves as an embodied futurist solution for resolving cisgender bias, as well as femme phobia and transphobia in theater, film, and television casting and performance training
Sociology (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Art history (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Funk (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)