No Tea, No Shade

"No Tea, No Shade's largest strength is its intimate relationship with its historical and theoretical origins: the text conjures up legends long ignored by white-dominated queer studies, including the Harlem Renaissance performer Gladys Bentley, the drag king MilDred, and Black Lace, a 90s-era erotic magazine by and for African-American lesbians." -- Sarah Fonseca * Lambda Literary Review * "This anthology captures a sense of daring potential. . . . Cogent and compelling." -- Jonathan Ward * European Journal of American Culture *

E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, the coeditor of Blacktino Queer Performance and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, all also published by Duke University Press.

Foreword / Cathy J. Cohen xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson 1 1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow / Jafari S. Allen 27 2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead: Spectacular Absence and Postracialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory / Alison Reed 48 3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans*Analytic / Kai M. Green 65 4. Gender Trouble in Triton / C. Riley Snorton 83 5. Reggaeton's Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography / Ramon H. Rivera-Servera 95 6. Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater / Lyndon K. Gill 113 7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographers of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 131 8. Toward a Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil / Tanya Saunders 147 9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and Heteroperpetually Ever After / La Marr Jurelle Bruce 166 10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability / Kortney Ziegler 196 11. Let's Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain / Jennifer Declue 216 12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex / Marlon M. Bailey 239 13. Black Data / Shaka McGlotten 262 14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism / Zachary Blair 287 15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot / Kwama Holmes 304 16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness / Treva Ellison 323 17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black / Amber Jamilla Musser 346 18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness / Kaila Adia Story 362 19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive / Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace 380 Bibliography 395 Contributors 409 Index 415