Invisible Pathways
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11664395 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristyn Scorsone (Engineering Arts (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-217 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Public Historian (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tph.2019.41.2.190 |
| OpenAlex | W2945390674 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Using oral history research under the direction of the Queer Newark Oral History Project, this essay explores how contemporary black lesbian entrepreneurs in the city of Newark, New Jersey, are engaged in entrepreneurial practices that resist patterns of gentrification. I argue for expanding our definition of public history to account for the business practices and social structures that queer black women in Newark are erecting as a part of their survival. These serve to pave the way for the preservation of their culture, enable them to collaborate with community in shared authority, and present queer black women’s knowledge and history to the wider public. By expanding the definition of what constitutes a public historian, we acknowledge the power of black lesbians as producers of historical knowledge and create new access points for shared inquiry with various marginalized communities that reach beyond academia and cultural institutions
Gentrification · Lesbian · Media studies · Oral history · Power (physics · Public history · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Race, History, and American Society
Gay New York
No Tea, No Shade
Black Feminist Thought
Conversations with James Baldwin
Selling Liberia
Olivia Records
Can't I be seen? Can't I be heard? Black women queering politics in Newark
Make Roanoke Queer Again
"Lift Up Yr Self!" Reinterpreting Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Power, and the Uplift Tradition
Trap door
Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists
Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |