The Black Living Room

Roach, Shoniqua

doi:10.1353/aq.2022.0056

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“…Home, to borrow terminology from Reddy (1998) and Zengin (2024), is a site of "contradictory demands and conditions," perhaps of community, solidarity, and resistance, but also of "constitutive violence" and "violent intimacies," where compulsory reproductive labor, sexuality, and desire sustain and are enmeshed with global systems of empire, colonialism, and capitalism. Home can also be a site of insurgent dwelling (Roach 2022) and insurgent intimacies (Schields 2020).…”

Section: Insurgent Intimaciesmentioning

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An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home

ADALET

2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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This article takes as its starting point a 1961 conversation between James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, where the latter first posed the question that would recur in Baldwin’s writings in the following years: “Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?” Although the phrase is often associated with Baldwin, who mostly used it as a metaphor for the racist nation, most famously in The Fire Next Time (1963), this article shows how Hansberry’s analysis of many African Americans’ skepticism toward integration into a “burning house” was situated in a global context of anticolonial, anti-capitalist, and feminist struggle. Writing within networks of Black internationalist feminists and presenting a multivalent and relational account of home, Hansberry revealed household labor and relations of intimacy to be central to the making and maintenance of empire, racism, and capitalism, as well as their contestation through acts and affects of insurgency.

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Section: Insurgent Intimaciesmentioning

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An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home

ADALET

2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Frottage of Ephemera

Adams

2024

GLQ

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Gregory D. Victorianne's Buti Voxx is a window into the diffuse erotic networks across the African diaspora who forged international information networks between the 1980s and early 2000s. The Afro-erotic zine occasions an opportunity to tease out what the author calls ephemera fever, the compulsion across contemporary Black queer studies and queer of color critique to frame the trace as evidence of imagining otherwise. The author attunes to the frictions, or what Keguro Macharia calls “frottage,” between the production of Buti Voxx and José Esteban Muñoz's paradigm of “ephemera as evidence” in an effort to query the conceptual pressures undergirding the process of scaling the quotidian to the erotic and political blueprint. The conundrum of the black vernacular is that objects like Buti Voxx become locked into the affective expectations and hermeneutic feedback loops set in motion by altruistic grammars like ephemera. Frottage of ephemera is a launchpad for thinking through how grammatical possibility concurrently functions as hermeneutic enclosure.

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The Black Living Room

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An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home

An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home

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