Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire

by GerShun Avilez

Book Overview

Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085280
• ISBN13: 9780252085284
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"