Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "black" Meets "queer"

by Kathryn Bond Stockton

Book Overview

Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs "black" and "queer" and for black and queer people--overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337967
• ISBN13: 9780822337966
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"