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Abstract
What do the politics of representation present in the realm of knowledge production? This roundtable of scholars of gender, sexuality, Black, and Latino studies circle the discussion around this question by positioning politics of representation and respectability within the realm of popular culture, pornography studies, and other highly consumed forms of media. The discussion also points toward themes of intramural policing, and other forms of oppression performed within Black and Brown communities as ways to understand how respectability politics are martialed in the public sphere.
Notes
Anne Meis Knupfer, “To Become Good, Self-Supporting Women: The State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls at Geneva, Illinois, 1900–1935,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 9, no. 4 (2001): 420–46.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Volume 1 (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 98–99.
Jennifer C. Nash, The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race Reading Pornography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), 47.
Zethu Matebeni and Jabu Perreira, “Preface,” in Reclaiming Afrikan: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities, edited by Zethu Matebeni (Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2014), 7.
ibid.
Darlene Clark Hine, “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West,” Signs 14, no. 4 (Summer, 1989).
Hine, “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West.”.
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Diacritics 17, no. 2 (1987): 68.
Dwight A. McBride, “Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism, Sexuality and the Problem of Authority,” Callaloo 21, no. 2 (1998), 364–77.
Ibid.
Cathy Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 3, no. 4 (1997): 437–65.
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Notes on contributors
Mali D. Collins-White
Mali D. Collins-White is a doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine, in the Culture and Theory program. Before joining the department she was an activist and creative writer in Brooklyn, NY. She has been published in Bitch magazine, on The Root.com, and for SALT.: Contemporary Art +Feminism (UK). She is the Co-Founder and Program Director at The Compton Center for Black Life.
Ariane Cruz
Ariane Cruz is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in African Diaspora Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, & Sexuality. Her book, The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography (2016), is published with New York University Press.
Jillian Hernandez
Jillian Hernandez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She curates exhibitions, makes art, teaches art to girls and young women of color in Miami, Florida along with her friends, and bumps Nicki Minaj and reggaeton in the car with her mother and teenage daughter as they navigate hot and congested Miami streets to reach Cuban pastry shops. Her research investigates processes of racialization, sexualities, embodiment, girlhood, and the politics of cultural production ranging from underground and mainstream hip hop to visual and performance art.
Xavier Livermon
Xavier Livermon is an Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include the intersection of popular culture and gender and sexuality in Africa and the African Diaspora. His forthcoming book, tentatively entitled Kwaito Futurity: Performance, Politics, and Freedom in Postapartheid South Africa, explores popular music as a site of new political cultures in contemporary South Africa.
Kaila Story
Kaila Story is an Associate Professor in the departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Pan African Studies at the University of Louisville. Dr. Story also holds the Audre Lorde Endowed Chair in Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality Studies at the University of Louisville. Last, Dr. Story is also the co-host of the popular radio show “Strange Fruit: Musings on Politics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life,” that airs every Saturday night on WFPL (89.3).
Jennifer Nash
Jennifer Nash’s work focuses on Black feminism, Black sexual politics, race and visual culture, and race and law. She held fellowships at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows. Her research has also been supported by George Washington University’s University Facilitating Fund and Columbian College Facilitating Fund, and by the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Women’s Studies and the Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship.