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Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II

Name: Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469674254
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Contributors:

Jennifer Dominique Jones

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

United States, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies

Book Topic:

20th Century, American

Series:

Justice, Power, and Politics

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Release Date:

2023-10-17

ISBN 13:

9781469674254

Weight:

1.02 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.67 inches

Pages:

298

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In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity--most often categorized as homosexuality--appeared in the campaigns of civil rights organizations, Black liberal elected officials, segregationists, and far right radicals. Deployed in complex and at times contradictory ways, political ideas about homosexuality (and later, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects) became tethered to conceptualizations of Blackness and racial equality.

In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash. Foregrounding an intersectional framing of postwar political histories, Jones demonstrates how the shared non-normative status of Blackness and homosexuality facilitated comparisons between subjects and political visions associated with both. Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day.

Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II

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