Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Jones, Jennifer Dominique, author.

Title Ambivalent affinities : a political history of Blackness and homosexuality after World War II / Jennifer Dominique Jones
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
©2023

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations
Series Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Contents To stand upon my constitutional rights: the NAACP Veterans' Affairs Bureau and World War II-era sexual exclusion, 1944-1950 -- These attempts of our enemies to blacken my character: the National Urban League and the political uses of homophobia, 1956-1957 -- Freedom March makes queers bed fellows: sexual rumors and the 1965 Alabama voting rights demonstrations -- Nobody has the right to turn us into a nation of queers: homosexuality in white supremacist propaganda, 1961-1975 -- Civil rights and moral wrongs: the politics of gay pride in metropolitan Atlanta, 1976-1977 -- Saving the race: the SCLC/WOMEN and ambivalent approaches to HIV/AIDS, 1986-1993
Summary "Ambivalent Affinities charts the messy responses of Black liberals to the reverberations of sexual exclusion in American life and law. The private lives of African Americans - their intimate relationships, kinship networks, reproductive capacities, gendered behavior, and sexual acts - have long been vulnerable to white scrutiny and disparagement, given their centrality to the construction of racial difference and racial hierarchies. In looking at the intersecting courses of African American, liberal, and LGBT organizing efforts from the 1940s through the 1990s, Jones exposes the persistent conflict between immediate political goals and deep-seated desires to recuperate Black intimate life"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed November 7, 2023)
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century
White supremacy movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Race identity -- Political aspects
Gay people -- Identity -- Political aspects
Lesbians -- Identity -- Political aspects
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
African Americans -- Civil rights
Gay liberation movement
Race relations
White supremacy movements
African American LGBTQ+ people
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469673585
1469673584
9781469673578
1469673576
9798890854452
Other Titles Political history of Blackness and homosexuality after World War II