Books written by E. Patrick Johnson

  • Sweet Tea (Revised Edition): Black Gay Men of the South
    Sweet Tea (Revised Edition): Black Gay Men of the South

    And I think having read John McNeill [The Church and the Homosexual (1976)] and [John] Boswell, with his treatise on homosex— uality in the church and social acceptance [Christianity Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980)], ...

  • Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
    Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History

    So, it was Christmas and I was coming home for Christmas, and she wanted this Cabbage Patch doll, so I had to bring her this Cabbage Patch doll. This guy that lived here was going that way, and my mom was going to pick me up, ...

  • Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
    Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South

    Through Johnson's use of critical performance ethnography, Sweet Tea validates the lives of these black gay men and reinforces the role of storytelling in both African American and southern cultures.

  • Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
    Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South

    ... map Narrators' Hometowns 12 illustrations Freddie in his garden 32 Harold held by his maternal grandmother, ca. ... 1968 458 Harold and Harold on the beach in California, 1974 461 Countess Vivian in the doorway of his home, ...

  • Blacktino Queer Performance
    Blacktino Queer Performance

    RACE, BEAUTY, AND THE EROTICS OF PUERTO RICAN BLACK QUEER PEDAGOGY ... In his 2004 play I Just Love Andy Gibb (first staged in 2007 at the Pregones Theater in the Bronx),1 Charles RiceGonzález gives Riggs's proposal a queer Puerto Rican ...

  • Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
    Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

    Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity—avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellent, fixed and malleable.

  • Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
    Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

    In Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, ed. Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar. New York: Routledge, 1993. 234–37. Parks, Suzan-Lori. The America Play and Other Works.

  • The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
    The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

    Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them.

  • Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
    Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

    While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect...

  • No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
    No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies

    The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality.

  • Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
    Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

    While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies ...