Queer freedom: Black sovereignty

by Lara, Ana-Mauríne

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Title Statements

Full title :Queer freedom : Black sovereignty / Ana-Maurine Lara.

Summary

"Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on over three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. The result is a rich ethnography of the ways criollo spiritual practices challenge gender and racial binaries and manifest what Lara characterizes as a shared desire for decolonization. Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is also a ceremonial ofrenda, or offering, in its own right. At its heart is a fundamental question: How can we enable "queer : black" life in all its forms, and what would it mean to be "free : sovereign" in the twenty-first century? Calling on the reader to join her in exploring possible answers, Lara maintains that the analogy between these terms-queerness and blackness, freedom and sovereignty-is necessarily incomplete and unresolved, to be determined only by ongoing processes of embodied, relational knowledge production. Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty thus follows figures such as Sylvia Wynter, María Lugones, M. Jacqui Alexander, Edouard Glissant, Mark Rifkin, Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde in working to theorize a potential roadmap to decolonization"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 177 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781438481104, 1438481101, 9781438481098, 1438481098
oclc:on1145102626
LC Classification:HQ73.3.D65
Dewey Decimal:306.76097293

opening ceremony -- altars-puntos -- body-lands -- water-memories -- war -- closing ceremony.

Subjects

Black people -- Race identity Black people -- Race identity -- Domini… Black people -- Social conditions. -- D… Dominican Republic Minorités sexuelles -- Conditions socia… Minorités sexuelles -- Identité. -- Rép… Sexual minorities -- Identity Sexual minorities -- Identity. -- Domin… Sexual minorities -- Social conditions.… Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology