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Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty is based on more than 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…
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3 editions- Ebook · English · 2020State University of New York Press · 192 pages · 9781438481111
- Other · English · 2021State University of New York Press · 9781438481104
- Other · English · 2020State University of New York Press · 200 pages · 9781438481098
SociologyLGBTQ anthropologyRuth Benedict PrizeSexual minoritiesSocial conditionsBlack peopleRace identityIdentity