“Reading Resource List” in “A Resource for Instructors”
Reading Resource List
Students interested in pursuing themes or questions posed in this Resource for Readers are encouraged to explore the numerous sources included on this list. This brief bibliography represents a fraction of those books and articles referenced in From Jesus to J-Setting, but can provide a foundation for continued study of the experiences of young Black people with fluid sexual identities and their religious and/or spiritual experiences.
Anon. 2015. The Prancing Elites Project Season 1 Episode 1. Crazy Legs Productions (Retrieved Feb. 20, 2021 https://www.crazylegsproductions.com/detail/prancing-elites-project).
Bailey, Marlon M. 2019. "Black Gay sex, Homosex-normativity, and Cathy Cohen’s Queer of Color Theory of Cultural Politics." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 25.1:162-168.
Balaji, Alexandra B. et al. 2012. “Role Flexing: How Community, Religion, and Family
Shape the Experiences of Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men.” AIDS Patient Care and STDs 26 (12):730–37.
Barnes, Sandra L. and Anne Streaty-Wimberly. 2016. Empowering Black Youth of Promise: Education and Socialization in the Village-minded Black Church. New York: Routledge Press.
Baumann, Jason. 2019. The Stonewall Reader. New York: Penguin Press.
Beam, John. 1986. In In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Boston: Alyson Publications.
Blumer Herbert. 1958. “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position.” Pacific Sociological Review 1(1):3–7.
Carbado, Devon. 1999. Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality. New York: New York University Press.
Cohen, Cathy. 1999. The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
The Combahee River Collective. 1983. “Combahee River Collective.” Pp. 272- 282 in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Edited by Barbara Smith. New York: Kitchen Table Women of Color Press.
Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1991. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43.6: 1241–1299.
Fullilove, M. and R. E. Fullilove. 1999. “Homosexuality and the African American Church: The Paradox of the ‘Open Closet.’” American Behavioral Scientist 42: 1117 – 25.
Harris, Angelique, Juan Battle, and Antonio Pastrana, Jr. 2018. Queer People of Color: Connected but Not Comfortable. Boulder, CO: First Forum Press.
Hill, W., and Clea McNeely. 2013. “HIV/AIDS Disparity between African-American and Caucasian Men Who Have Sex with Men: Intervention Strategies for the Black Church.” Journal of Religion and Health 52(2): 475-487. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24484999.
Hunter, Marcus. 2010. “All the Gays are White and All the Blacks are Straight: Black Gay Men, Identity, and Community.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy 7(2): 81-92.
Johnson, E. Patrick, Henderson, M. G., Holland, S. P., & Cohen, C. J. 2005. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Lemelle, A. and J. Battle. 2004. “Black Masculinity Matters in Attitudes Toward Gay Rights.” Journal of Homosexuality 47: 39-41.
McQueen, Chelsea and Sandra L. Barnes. 2017. “Social Support and Suggestions among Black Men who have Sex with Men in Tennessee.” Journal of Positive Sexuality 3(2):22-26 (http://www.journalofpositivesexuality.org).
McQueeney , K. 2009. “‘We are God's Children, Y'All’: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Lesbian- and Gay-Affirming Congregations.” Social Problems 56(1): 151-173. doi:10.1525/sp.2009.56.1.151.
Pitt, Richard. N. 2009. “‘Still Looking for My Jonathan’: Gay Black Men's Management of Religious and Sexual Identity Conflicts.” Journal of Homosexuality 57(1): 39-53.
Reddy, Chandan. 2011. Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Scott, James C. 1984. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Strayhorn, Terrell L. 2013. “And Their Own Received Them Not: Black Gay Male Undergraduates’ Experiences with White Racism, Black Homophobia.” Counterpoints 383: 105–119.
Warner, Michael. 1993. Fear of Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory. Minnesota: University Of Minnesota Press.
Wimberly, Anne Streaty, Sandra Barnes, and Karma Johnson. 2013. Claiming Hope: Youth Ministry in the Black Church. New York: Judson Press.
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