Lexington Books
Pages: 216
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅛
978-1-4985-8229-2 • Hardback • December 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-8231-5 • Paperback • April 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-4985-8230-8 • eBook • December 2019 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Jesús Gregorio Smith is assistant professor of ethnic studies at Lawrence University and Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Andrew W. Mellon Fellow.
C. Winter Han is associate professor of sociology at Middlebury College.
Introduction: Home is Where the Heart is: Invisibility and Marginalization for Queer Men of Color
Jesus Gregorio Smith
Chapter 1: “Damn, I’m Dating a Lot of White Guys”: Gay Men’s Individual Narratives of Racial Sexual Orientation Development
Jason Crockett
Chapter 2: They Don’t Date Any Dark People: The Queer Case of Gay Racism
C. Winter Han and Scott E. Rutlege
Chapter 3: “OK, so Zion’s Not a Sissy Anymore He’s Gay, so Let’s Call Him That”: From Elementary School to College: Schooling Experiences of Black Gay Males Leading to Understanding and Self-Possession of Their Intersecting Racial and Sexual Identities
Michael D. Bartone
Chapter 4: Gay Latino Greeks: Finding a “Familia” in a Latino Fraternity
Manuel Del Real
Chapter 5: Gayborbood Change: The Intertwined Sexual and Racial Character Of Assimilation in Chicago’s Boystown
Jason Orne
Chapter 6: Queer Loneliness, Queer Hopefulness: Toward Restaging the Intersectionality of Gay + Asian/American from the Southwest
Shinsuke Eguchi
Chapter 7: Navigating the Spaces between Racial/Ethnic and Sexual Orientation: Black Gay Immigrants’ Experiences of Racism and Homophobia in Montréal, Canada
Sulaimon Giwa, Kofi Norsah, and Ferzana Chaze
Chapter 8: The Crime of Black Male Sexuality: Tiger Mandingo and Black Male Vulnerability
Jesus Gregorio Smith
Chapter 9: Experiencing Queer Spaces as a Transgender Man of Color
Mario I. Suárez
Conclusion
C. Winter Han
This truly interdisciplinary and groundbreaking collection of essays contributes to queer theory and race studies by elaborating on the complexities present in the everyday experiences of queer people of color. Home and Community for Queer Men of Color: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality is a real stunner—rich, illuminating, often highly-personal, and a must-have addition to any serious intersectionality scholar’s library. Editors Jesús Gregorio Smith and C. Winter Han have put together a collection that will be cited and discussed for years to come!
— Jimmie Manning, University of Nevada
Home and Community for Queer Men of Color examines the intersections of race and sexuality, and other related social locations, as they inform and are informed by contemporary problems germane to cultural and intercultural lived experience. The authors engage with an impressive range of shared and unique issues to show how home and community for queer men of color matter in today’s increasingly turbulent and uncertain times. The book’s chapters are accessible, interesting, challenging, and promising—key qualities that make the book appealing for use in the undergraduate and graduate courses taught in a diverse number of academic fields. Ultimately, Home and Community places stories and experiences commonly relegated to the margins (of society and the academy) front and center and compels us to think and feel in novel ways.
— Keith Berry, University of South Florida