Foreword / Cathy J. Cohen xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson 1

1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow / Jafari S. Allen 27

2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead: Spectacular Absence and Postracialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory / Alison Reed 48

3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans*Analytic / Kai M. Green 65

4. Gender Trouble in Triton / C. Riley Snorton 83

5. Reggaetón's Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 95

6. Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater / Lyndon K. Gill 113

7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographers of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 131

8. Toward a Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil / Tanya Saunders 147

9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and Heteroperpetually Ever After / La Marr Jurelle Bruce 166

10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability / Kortney Ziegler 196

11. Let's Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain / Jennifer Declue 216

12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex / Marlon M. Bailey 239

13. Black Data / Shaka McGlotten 262

14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism / Zachary Blair 287

15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot / Kwama Holmes 304

16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness / Treva Ellison 323

17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black / Amber Jamilla Musser 346

18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness / Kaila Adia Story 362

19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive / Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace 380

Bibliography 395

Contributors 409

Index 415