02109nam 22005173u 450 991078655850332120231212221134.01-4529-4090-8(CKB)3710000000113927(EBL)1693127(SSID)ssj0001194352(PQKBManifestationID)11644943(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001194352(PQKBWorkID)11150356(PQKB)11349068(MiAaPQ)EBC1693127(EXLCZ)99371000000011392720140526d2014|||| u|| |engtxtccrNobody Is Supposed to Know[electronic resource] Black Sexuality on the Down LowMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20141 online resource (210 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7797-2 Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Transpositions; 1. Down-Low Genealogies; 2. Trapped in the Epistemological Closet; 3. Black Sexual Syncretism; 4. Rumor Has It; Epilogue: Down-Low Diasporas; Notes; Index;Since the early 2000's, the phenomenon of the "down low"-black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual-has exploded in media and popular culture. C. Riley Snorton traces the emergence and circulation of the down low, demonstrating how these portrayals reinforce troubling perceptions of black sexuality generally.African American gaysGender identityAfrican American gay peopleSexual behaviorAfrican AmericansAfrican American gays.Gender identity.African American gay peopleSexual behaviorAfrican Americans306.76608996073Snorton C. Riley1492277AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910786558503321Nobody Is Supposed to Know3714679UNINA