The black queer work of ratchet : race, gender, sexuality, and the (anti)politics of respectability /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lane, Nikki (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Subjects:	African American women > Social conditions. African American sexual minorities > Social conditions. Middle class African Americans > Social conditions. Black English. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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 Womens Flesh.