Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo nègs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrière, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dréd (a.k.a. Mildréd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora.
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queer fist, voodoo doll, strange fruit, black skin, black heteromasculinity, chan pwen, mizik angaje, dragueur nègre, gwo nèg, voye pwen, chante pwen, drag queen blues, nègre sans, konpa dirèk, performative instantiations, drag king performances, grenade dans, drag king scene, sound circuits, black gay community, black masculinity, female masculinity, masques blancs, black male body, peau noire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Haitian Corner, Mona Lisa, African American, Black Noise, Baby Doc, The Carnival, Trans-American Constructions of Black Heteromasculinity, Rap Haiti, North American, Miss Thing, Haitian American, King of the Hill, Trans-American Art, Boukman Eksperyans, Papa Doc, The Ecleftic, Love We Need, Drag-Kinging the Dyaspora, James Baldwin, Fort Dimanche, Chester Himes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Venus Boyz Browse Sample Pages:
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queer fist, voodoo doll, strange fruit, black skin, black heteromasculinity, chan pwen, mizik angaje, dragueur nègre, gwo nèg, voye pwen, chante pwen, drag queen blues, nègre sans, konpa dirèk, performative instantiations, drag king performances, grenade dans, drag king scene, sound circuits, black gay community, black masculinity, female masculinity, masques blancs, black male body, peau noire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Haitian Corner, Mona Lisa, African American, Black Noise, Baby Doc, The Carnival, Trans-American Constructions of Black Heteromasculinity, Rap Haiti, North American, Miss Thing, Haitian American, King of the Hill, Trans-American Art, Boukman Eksperyans, Papa Doc, The Ecleftic, Love We Need, Drag-Kinging the Dyaspora, James Baldwin, Fort Dimanche, Chester Himes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Venus Boyz Browse Sample Pages:
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