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Ambivalent affinities : a political history of Blackness and homosexuality after World War II
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"Ambivalent Affinities charts the messy responses of Black liberals to the reverberations of sexual exclusion in American life and law. The private lives of African Americans - their intimate relat...
"Ambivalent Affinities charts the messy responses of Black liberals to the reverberations of sexual exclusion in American life and law. The private lives of African Americans - their intimate relationships, kinship networks, reproductive capacities, gendered behavior, and sexual acts - have long been vulnerable to white scrutiny and disparagement, given their centrality to the construction of racial difference and racial hierarchies. In looking at the intersecting courses of African American, liberal, and LGBT organizing efforts from the 1940s through the 1990s, Jones exposes the persistent conflict between immediate political goals and deep-seated desires to recuperate Black intimate life"--
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- Creator
- Jennifer Dominique Jones
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- English
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- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
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- xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781469674254, 1469674254, 1469673568, 9781469673561, 1469673576, 9781469673578, 9781469673585, 1469673584, 9798890854452
- OCLC
- on1372560147, on1402811683
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- To stand upon my constitutional rights: the NAACP Veterans' Affairs Bureau and World War II-era sexual exclusion, 1944-1950 -- These attempts of our enemies to blacken my character: the National Urban League and the political uses of homophobia, 1956-1957 -- Freedom March makes queers bed fellows: sexual rumors and the 1965 Alabama voting rights demonstrations -- Nobody has the right to turn us into a nation of queers: homosexuality in white supremacist propaganda, 1961-1975 -- Civil rights and moral wrongs: the politics of gay pride in metropolitan Atlanta, 1976-1977 -- Saving the race: the SCLC/WOMEN and ambivalent approaches to HIV/AIDS, 1986-1993
Subjects
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- White supremacy movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Race identity -- Political aspects.
- Gay people -- Identity -- Political aspects.
- Lesbians -- Identity -- Political aspects.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- James W. Jones Collection of Gay and Lesbian Literature