Black Queer Dance

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance.

Autorentext

Mark Broomfield, PhD, MFA, Associate Professor of English, and the Founder and Director of Performance as Social Change at SUNY Geneseo, is an award-winning scholar and artist with publications in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, dance, and ethnography. Broomfield was born in London, England to Jamaican parents who emigrated to the Bronx, New York.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Introduction

Chapter 1. Passing for Almost Straight and Strategic Performances of Masculinity

Chapter 2. Breaking the Fourth Wall of Gender

Chapter 3. Just Like a Girl

Chapter 4. Carrying On Through the Silence: Alvin Ailey's Black Queer Legacy

Chapter 5. Policing Masculinity: What Gender Nonconformity Can Teach Us in the Classroom

Epilogue

Index