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Black Freedom Struggle
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Black Sexual Politics
Blackness
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Citizens Councils of America
Civil Rights Movement
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GI Bill
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Lavender Scare
LGBT History
LGBT Rights
Massive Resistance
Military Discharge
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Urban League
Race Relations St. Louis
Racial Segregation
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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White Supremacist Publications
William L. Dickinson
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- ISBN 9781469673561
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity—most often categorized as homosexuality—appeared in the campaigns of civil rights organizations, Black liberal elected officials, segregationists, and far right radicals. Deployed in complex and at times contradictory ways, political ideas about homosexuality (and later, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects) became tethered to conceptualizations of Blackness and racial equality.
In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash. Foregrounding an intersectional framing of postwar political histories, Jones demonstrates how the shared non-normative status of Blackness and homosexuality facilitated comparisons between subjects and political visions associated with both. Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day.
In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash. Foregrounding an intersectional framing of postwar political histories, Jones demonstrates how the shared non-normative status of Blackness and homosexuality facilitated comparisons between subjects and political visions associated with both. Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day.
Jennifer Dominique Jones is assistant professor of history and women's and gender studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
