Queer, Black, Intersectional Davidson: An Archival Project

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• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
  In this book, Butler challenges the distinct idea that sex is natural and gender is socially constructed, arguing that both sex and gender are socially constructed. Butler also develops the performative theory of gender that argues that gender is the product of actions and behaviors, that is, performance, and it isn't instrinsic to people. This book is available electronically through the Davidson College Library.
• Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
  In this book, Ferguson addresses a lack of consideration of sexuality in the construction of intersectional identities that historically had only included considerations of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. He reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. This book is available through Inter Library Loan through the Davidson College Library.
• Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the ‘Other'
  In her article, Smith explains that Black Feminist Theory includes "a way of reading inscriptions of race (particularly but not exclusively blackness), gender (particularly but not exclusively womanhood), and class in modes of cultural expression." She uses this framework to read and interpret relationships between different people - a relational interpretation characterized by lived experiences.This book is available in print through the Davidson College Library.
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
  In this book, Collins analyzes the intersectional marginalization of black women - she writes, "Race and gender may be analytically distinct, but in Black women’s everyday lives, they work together.” Despite this marginalization, Collins explores the words and ideas produced by intellectual black feminists, providing a new theoretical framework for the interpretation of their works. This book is available in print through the Davidson College Library.
• I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
  This book contains essays written by Audre Lorde from 1976 through to 1990. The essays cover sexuality, race, gender, culture, class, parenting, disease, resistance, and power - both within the United States and across the African diaspora. Lorde emphasizes the tight connections between race, class, gender, and sexuality, encouraging readers to think intersectionally.This book is available in print through the Davidson College Library.
• White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
  In this book, DiAngelo works to understand racism not just as something for 'bad people,' but instead thinks about racism in terms of power structures. DiAngelo attempts to disect the ways that white people internalize their whiteness and protect their privilege in an attempt to get people to engage with racism in a constructive way.This book is held in print by the Davidson College Library.
• Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
  This book is a compilation of oral histories that narrate the experiences of black gay men in the South. Johnson uses the oral histories to provide insight into what it means to naviagte the South in a queer black masculine body.This book is available electronically through the Davidson College Library
• Black. Queer. Southern. Women : an oral history
  This book is a compilation of oral histories collected by E. Patrick Johnson of queer black women in the South and their experiences. It uses the oral histories to encourage the reader to think about what it means to navigate territory taken from indigenous people and worked by African slaves in a queer and black body.This book can be obtained through Inter Library Loan through the Davidson College Library. It is not held by the College.
• Out in the South
  This book is an edited volume of narratives pertaining to being out in the South. This book is not holistically centered on race, but it does include works such as David Knapp Whittier's "Race And Gay Community In Southern Town," Bonnie R. Strickland's "Leaving the Confederate Closet," and Charles I. Nero's "Black Gay Men And White Gay Men: A Less Than Perfect Union."This book is available electronically through the Davidson College Library.
• Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place
  This books is an edited volume of works pertaining to queerness in the South specifically, though it is not a book that focuses on the queer black south. It does, however, include a couple race-specific works, including Craig Washingtons "Fall Down On Me: Stories of the Club From Black Gay Men in the South" and Qiana Cutt's "My Labels Are [Not] Too Many: My Journey of “Becoming” A Black, Afrocentric, Southern Lesbian." This books is available electronically through the Davidson College Library.
• Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
  In this work, Cooper attempts to answer the question, "what does it mean and what has it meant to be a Black female intellectual?" The book constructs an "intellectual genealogy" of the ideas produced by race women and an "intellectualy geography" that maps the deliberate ways Black women chose to take up intellectual and physical space.This book is available electronically through the Davidson College Library.
• Black Geographic Possibilities: On a Queer Black South
  In this work, Eaves "focuses on the ways that Black subjects undertake space-making practices within a specific set of circumstances and expands Black spatial possibilities, thereby enabling inquiry and resisting homogeneity." Eaves strives to disrupt "traditional trajectories" of imagined Southern geographies by "centralizing Black subjects as crucial to spatial knowledge."This work is available through jstor here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26367644
• INTRODUCTORY NOTES: PERFORMING QUEER LIVES
  In this work, Royster provides introductory notes as to the ways that queer lives and experiences are performed, especially within a culture that is increasingly normalizing LGBTQ marriage and the LGBTQ family. Royster reminds us that "academic theory threatens to take us away from the lived histories of folks of color, avoiding knowledges that don't fit neatly into the needs of the academic trend of the day," and challenges theory to in the future think critically about the lived experiences of bodies of color.This work is available through jstor here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23541223
• MAKING WAVES: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BLACK FEMINISM
  In this work, Taylor recenters the wave narrative used to talk about feminism (second and third waves, specifically) to focus on the contributions of black feminists. This work is availble through jstor here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41069774
• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
  In this work, Crenshaw uses legal cases specifically to address intersectionality. She centers her work on the experiences of black women, making the argument that only through understandings of marginalization at an intersectional level can justice be served through the legal system - black women experience discrimination on both racist and sexist levels at the same time, and Crenshaw wants to challenge the idea that "in race discrimination cases, discrimination tends to be viewed in terms of sex- or class-privileged Blacks; in sex discrimination cases, the focus is on race- and class-privileged women" because "this focus on the most privileged group members marginalizes those who are multiply-burdened and obscures claims that cannot be understood as resulting from discrete sources of discrimination."This work can be found here: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf
• Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
  This book presents an anthology of black queer theory, including works such as: o Roderick A. Ferguson, “Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity” in which Ferguson connects sociology’s designation of sexuality as a "social phenomenon to past and present social formations that invest in practices of racial exclusion and racial privilege."o Rinaldo Walcott, “Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora” in which Walcott discusses how the "black studies project" has not "adequately incorporated nor engaged the thought of thinking blackness differently, especially when it encounters black queers."o Phillip Brian Harper, “The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Experience, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge” in which Harper discusses the ways that queer black bodies navigate space in 'everday life.'This book is available electronically through the Davidson College Library.
• The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
  In this book, author Mason Stokes explores the relationship between whiteness and heterosexuality. Stokes analyzes historical white supremacist texts and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire. This book is available through the Davidson College Library in both print and electronic form.
• Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection
  In this work, Patricia Hill Collins addresses intersectionality. She writes, "In essence, each group identifies the type of oppression with which it feels most comfortable as being fundamental and classifies all other types as being of lesser importance." She advocates for new categories of analysis that are inclusive of race, class, and gender as distinctive yet interlocking structures of oppression. This book is held in print by the Davidson College Library.
• The Sex Which Is Not One
  "The Sex Which Is Not One" presents the theory behind the idea that the female body exists as an absence, and the sexualities of women only exist in conjunction with the sexualities of men. According to Irigaray, "(Re-)discovering herself, for a woman, thus could only signify the possibility of sacrificing no one of her pleasures to another, of identifying herself with none of them in particular, of never being simply one."This book is available in print through the Davidson College library.
• Lesbians in Revolt
  In "Lesbians in Revolt," Charlotte Bunch makes the argument that lesbianism is a political choice - only through the conscious decision to avoid men can women fully subvert the ideology of male supremacy. According to Bunch, "Lesbians literally do not need men (even for procreation if the science of cloning is developed)." This essay is significant because it challenges the male definition of lesbianism as an only sexual act and is instead a commitment by women to other women - and to themselves.This book is held in print by the Davidson College library.
• The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
  In the first volume of the History of Sexuality, Foucault presents the Repressive Hypthesis, which argues that people struggle to liberate themselves from the imposition of silence and tight sexual morals that were taught by Victorian ancestors. Foucualt argues that sexuality is a social construct, and is constructed through knowledge production about sexuality in historical institutions. This item is available as a PDF here: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/FoucaultHistorySex.pdf