{"product_id":"queer-freedom-black-sovereignty-paperback","title":"Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAna-Maurine Lara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Gregory Bateson Book Prize presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, \u003ci\u003eQueer Freedom: Black Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. The result is a rich ethnography of the ways criollo spiritual practices challenge gender and racial binaries and manifest what Lara characterizes as a shared desire for decolonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueer Freedom: Black Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e is also a ceremonial ofrenda, or offering, in its own right. At its heart is a fundamental question: How can we enable \"queer: black\" life in all its forms, and what would it mean to be \"free: sovereign\" in the twenty-first century? Calling on the reader to join her in exploring possible answers, Lara maintains that the analogy between these terms--queerness and blackness, freedom and sovereignty--is necessarily incomplete and unresolved, to be determined only by ongoing processes of embodied, relational knowledge production. \u003ci\u003eQueer Freedom: Black Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e thus follows figures such as Sylvia Wynter, María Lugones, M. Jacqui Alexander, Édouard Glissant, Mark Rifkin, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde in working to theorize a potential roadmap to decolonization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAna-Maurine Lara\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Oregon. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eErzulie's Skirt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKohnjehr Woman\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47412323188914,"sku":"9781438481104","price":61.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a0d539ed8d94b9fe5878c2708a9aaa91.webp?v=1778319127","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/queer-freedom-black-sovereignty-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}