Drs. Darius Bost and C. Riley Snorton Publish New Book: A Black Queer History of the United States
Introduction
The UIC Gender & Women’s Studies Program proudly congratulates Professors C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost on their newly published book A Black Queer History of the United States.
This landmark study, the first Black history to center queer voices, traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to the present. In this latest book in Beacon’s award-winning ReVisioning History series, Professors C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost unearth the often overlooked histories of Black queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people. They show that gender and sexual expression have always been integral to Black freedom struggles, highlighting how the fight against racial injustice has long been intertwined with movements for sexual and gender justice.
C. Riley Snorton is Professor of English Language and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, which won numerous award.
Darius Bost is an Associate Professor of Black Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. His research focuses on Black literary and visual cultures; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; African American and LGBTQ histories; and medical humanities, centering Black queer life, culture, and liberation. He is the award-winning author of Evidence of Being and a co-editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
GWS celebrates this life-giving contribution to Black queer and trans histories and the vital tradition of liberatory scholarship!
For more information or to purchase a copy of A Black Queer History of the United States, visit here.