Blacktino Queer Performance 1st Edition E. Patrick Johnson

Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer PerformanceE. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Part I

The love conjure/blues Text InstallationSharon Bridgforth

1. Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth’s The love conjure/blues Text InstallationMatt Richardson

2. Interview with Sharon BridgforthSandra L. Richards

Part II

MachosDirected/developed by Coya Paz; created by Teatro Luna

3. Voicing MasculinityTamara Roberts

4. Interview with Coya PazPatricia Ybarra

Part III

Strange Fruit: A Performance about Identity PoliticsE. Patrick Johnson

5. Passing Strange: E. Patrick Johnson’s Strange FruitJennifer DeVere Brody

6. Interview with E. Patrick JohnsonBernadette Marie Calafell

Part IV

Ah ménJavier Cardona, translated by Andreea Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

7. Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona’s Ah ménCeliany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez

8. Interview with Javier CardonaJossianna Arroyo, translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Part V

Dancin’ the Down LowJeffrey Q. McCune Jr.

9. Queering Black Identity and Desire: Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.’s Dancin’ the Down LowLisa B. Thompson

10. Interview with Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.John Keene

Part VI

Cuban HustleCedric Brown

11. Love and Money: Performing Black Queer Diasporic Desire in Cuban HustleMarlon M. Bailey

12. Interview with Cedric BrownD. Soyini Madison

Part VII

Seens from the Unexpectedness of LovePamela Booker

13. “Public Intimacy”: Women-Loving-Women as Dramaturgical TransgressionsOmi Osun Joni L. Jones

14. Interview with Pamela BookerTavia Nyong’o

Part VIII

BerserkerPaul Outlaw

15. What’s Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers? Paul Outlaw’s Berserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing BlacknessCharles I. Nero

16. Interview with Paul OutlawVershawn Ashanti Young

Part IX

I Just Love Andy Gibb: A Play in One ActCharles Rice-González

17. Learning to Unlove Andy Gibb: Race, Beauty, and the Erotics of Puerto Rican Black Queer PedagogyLawrence La Fountain-Stokes

18. Interview with Charles Rice-GonzálezRamón H. Rivera-Servera

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