Blackqueer Sexual Ethics

Elyse Ambrose is Assistant Professor of the Study of Religion and Black Study at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

Elyse Ambrose takes the reader on a journey through Harlem in the 1920's and 30's to what are referred to as living archives, pictures and interviews with blackqueer folk today. This journey is about the expansion of ethics in relation to black bodies, moving them from bodies that have been alienated and problematized to the centre of the creation of ethics coming from the blackqueer communities. Along the way Ambrose dismantles patriarchy, white centric thinking and calls to account the black churches and theologians who have not been as inclusive as they should have been. At its heart it is a book that declares love to be political and ethics to be a process set in multiple communities.It is a book that celebrates the divine within blackness, blackqueerness, a work to be embraced not just read.

• Introduction Toward Blackqueer Possibility in/through Living ArchiveChapter 1Examining the Integrative in Blackqueer HarlemChapter 2Blackqueering of Ethical and Theological DiscourseChapter 3 Spirit in the Dark Body - Blackqueer Expressions of the Im/materialChapter 4 Constructing a Blackqueer Ethics of SexualityEpilogueBibliographyIndex