Queer roots for the diaspora : ghosts in the family tree /

As a way of understanding identity, the concept of rootedness hasincreasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to policeidentity through a politics of purity-excluding anyone who doesn't share the sa...

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Main Author: Hayes, Jarrod (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Looking for roots among the mangroves -- Queer roots in Africa -- Scandals and lies : the truth about roots -- From roots that uproot to queer diasporas -- The seduction of roots and the roots of seduction -- Booger hollar and other queer sites : ghosts in the family tree -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index. 
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