Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago

by Kemi Adeyemi

Book Overview

In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018690
• ISBN13: 9781478018698
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"