TY  - GEN
T1  - Black queer freedom : spaces of injury and paths of desire
T2  - New Black studies series.
A1  - Avilez, GerShun, 1980-
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1159605355
AB  - "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 socioeconomic 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 used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces--specifically prisons and hospitals--and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility"--
OP  - 184
CN  - HQ76.27.A37 A95 2020
SN  - 0252052250
SN  - 9780252052255
SN  - 0252043375
SN  - 9780252043376
SN  - 9780252085284
KW  - African American gay people.
KW  - Gay people, Black.
KW  - African American arts.
KW  - Gay artists.
KW  - Homophobia.
KW  - Racism.
KW  - Queer theory.
KW  - Personnes homosexuelles noires américaines.
KW  - Arts noirs américains.
KW  - Artistes homosexuels.
KW  - Racisme.
KW  - Théorie queer.
KW  - Homophobie.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
ER  -