Queer in Black and White

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

Queer · Sociology · White (mutation) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Race, History, and American Society · African American authors · African American gays · African americans · American fiction · American fiction, african american authors · American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism · History and criticism · Homosexuality in literature · Homosexuality in motion pictures · Homosexuality in music · Intellectual life · Queer theory · Race identity · Race relations in literature · Race relations in motion pictures