The Black Queer Work of Ratchet Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Lane, Nikki (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Ethnology.; African Americans.; Sociology.; Linguistic anthropology.; Communication.; Cultural Anthropology.; African American Culture.; Gender Studies.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Media and Communication.

This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. The word ratchet has entered into a wider (whiter) American discourse the same way that many words in African American English have-through hip-hop and social media. Generally, ra...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Slight Werk, Quare Work
• 2. Defining Ratchet: Ratchet and Boojie Ass Politics in Black Queer Space
• 3. Being Ratchet: Undoing the Politics of Respectability in Black Queer Space
• 4. Representing Ratchet: Screening Black Lesbian Sex and Ratchet Cultural Politics
• 5.Coming Out Ratchet and Whole: Black Women and the Struggle to Just Be
• 6. Conclusion: "I Said What I Said": Ratchet Cultural Politics, Black Homonormativity, and the Consumption of Black Women's Flesh.