Freda L Fair
Biographic Data
| ID | 826365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Freda L Fair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Freda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fair |
| SIGNATURE | FAIR F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I'm Hard to Catch
This article examines Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999) by Yvonne Welbon, an independent documentary film centered on the life of African American lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis to advance a queer of color theory of longevity. The analysis closely considers Ruth Ellis's assertion in the film that she: ". . . wasn't in-What you call it? . . . Closet. Never." Although Ellis explicitly disavows "the closet" declaring instead that she was…
Erotic Illegibility and Desire in Representations of Black Sexuality
Erotic Illegibility and Desire in Representations of Black Sexuality Freda L. Fair (bio) and Mahaliah Little (bio) This essay engages our shared interest in the capriciousness of sexual expression and desire.1 By analyzing the discontinued WGN television series Underground (2016–17) as an ephemeral site for imagining black women's erotic interiority and theorizing black sexual desire as a scattered effect of the archive in Cheryl Dunye's film The…
Subject/Object/Body
Subject/Object/Body:Recent Perspectives on Beauty and Aesthetics in Gender Studies Freda Fair (bio) Uri McMillan's Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance, New York: NYU Press, 2015 Sherri Irvin's Body Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 Meeta Rani Jha's The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body, New York: Routledge, 2016 Uri McMillan's Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Femi…
Surveilling Social Difference
This article examines the arrest records of black women who worked as sex workers in downtown Minneapolis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were referred to as “alley workers.” I demonstrate the ways in which black women’s alley work documents the coming together of photography and surveillance as constitutive of the broader project of the modernization of police work through the procedures of standardization offered by the Bertillon …
I'm Hard to Catch
This article examines Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999) by Yvonne Welbon, an independent documentary film centered on the life of African American lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis to advance a queer of color theory of longevity. The analysis closely considers Ruth Ellis's assertion in the film that she: ". . . wasn't in-What you call it? . . . Closet. Never." Although Ellis explicitly disavows "the closet" declaring instead that she was…
Surveilling Social Difference
This article examines the arrest records of black women who worked as sex workers in downtown Minneapolis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were referred to as “alley workers.” I demonstrate the ways in which black women’s alley work documents the coming together of photography and surveillance as constitutive of the broader project of the modernization of police work through the procedures of standardization offered by the Bertillon …
Surveilling Social Difference
This article examines the arrest records of black women who worked as sex workers in downtown Minneapolis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were referred to as “alley workers.” I demonstrate the ways in which black women’s alley work documents the coming together of photography and surveillance as constitutive of the broader project of the modernization of police work through the procedures of standardization offered by the Bertillon …
Subject/Object/Body
Subject/Object/Body:Recent Perspectives on Beauty and Aesthetics in Gender Studies Freda Fair (bio) Uri McMillan's Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance, New York: NYU Press, 2015 Sherri Irvin's Body Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 Meeta Rani Jha's The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body, New York: Routledge, 2016 Uri McMillan's Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Femi…
Erotic Illegibility and Desire in Representations of Black Sexuality
Erotic Illegibility and Desire in Representations of Black Sexuality Freda L. Fair (bio) and Mahaliah Little (bio) This essay engages our shared interest in the capriciousness of sexual expression and desire.1 By analyzing the discontinued WGN television series Underground (2016–17) as an ephemeral site for imagining black women's erotic interiority and theorizing black sexual desire as a scattered effect of the archive in Cheryl Dunye's film The…
I'm Hard to Catch
This article examines Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999) by Yvonne Welbon, an independent documentary film centered on the life of African American lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis to advance a queer of color theory of longevity. The analysis closely considers Ruth Ellis's assertion in the film that she: ". . . wasn't in-What you call it? . . . Closet. Never." Although Ellis explicitly disavows "the closet" declaring instead that she was…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)