jennifer susanne leath

Black, Quare, and Then to Where

Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Maâ atâ the ancient Egyptian deity of justice and truth. As a moral force, leath contends, Maâ at opens new possibilities for mapping ethical frameworks to understand, redefine, and imagine justices in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025146
• ISBN-10: 147802514X
• Artikelnr.: 67739140

Autorenporträt

jennifer susanne leath

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Introducing Maât  1
Part I. quare-womanist-vidicationist movement
1. A Prolegomenon to Justice Hermeneutics and Black Sexual Ethics  17
2. Naming (and Transforming) Justice: (Re)Imagining Black Sexual Ethics  35
Part II. justices
3. Flying Justice: Sun Ra’s Sexuality and Other Afrofutures  71
4. Heterexpectations: Jumping the Broom, Marriage, Democracy, and
Entanglement Theory  101
5. Dancing Justice: Just Black HomoSexualities  137
6. Ancient Mixologies: Joel Augustus Rogers and Puzzling Interracial
Intimacies  167
7. Black Web: Disrupting Transnational Pornographies for
Post(trans)national Humanalities  205
Conclusion. Re-covering Maât  245
Notes  255
Bibliography  293
Index  313