{"product_id":"queer-freedom-black-sovereignty-9781438481104","title":"Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty","description":"Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, \u003ci\u003eQueer Freedom: Black Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. The result is a rich ethnography of the ways criollo spiritual practices challenge gender and racial binaries and manifest what Lara characterizes as a shared desire for decolonization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueer Freedom: Black Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e is also a ceremonial ofrenda, or offering, in its own right. At its heart is a fundamental question: How can we enable \"queer: black\" life in all its forms, and what would it mean to be \"free: sovereign\" in the twenty-first century? Calling on the reader to join her in exploring possible answers, Lara maintains that the analogy between these terms-queerness and blackness, freedom and sovereignty-is necessarily incomplete and unresolved, to be determined only by ongoing processes of embodied, relational knowledge production. \u003ci\u003eQueer Freedom: Black Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e thus follows figures such as Sylvia Wynter, Mar a Lugones, M. Jacqui Alexander,  douard Glissant, Mark Rifkin, Gloria Anzald a, and Audre Lorde in working to theorize a potential roadmap to decolonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lara, Ana-Maurine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438481104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d","brand":"Ana-Maurine Lara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33052739305547,"sku":"9781438481104","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_fe5d2557-2d3a-4cca-ac80-fc2e57886f64.jpg?v=1612228654","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/queer-freedom-black-sovereignty-9781438481104","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}