LEADER 04408nam 22006375 450 001 9910484932703321 005 20200706064747.0 010 $a3-030-23319-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-23319-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000009939891 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5986790 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-23319-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009939891 100 $a20191127d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Black Queer Work of Ratchet$b[electronic resource] $eRace, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability /$fby Nikki Lane 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 168 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a3-030-23318-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Slight Werk, Quare Work -- 2. Defining Ratchet: Ratchet and Boojie Ass Politics in Black Queer Space -- 3. Being Ratchet: Undoing the Politics of Respectability in Black Queer Space -- 4. Representing Ratchet: Screening Black Lesbian Sex and Ratchet Cultural Politics -- 5.Coming Out Ratchet and Whole: Black Women and the Struggle to Just Be -- 6. Conclusion: ?I Said What I Said?: Ratchet Cultural Politics, Black Homonormativity, and the Consumption of Black Women?s Flesh. 330 $aThis book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. The word ratchet has entered into a wider (whiter) American discourse the same way that many words in African American English have?through hip-hop and social media. Generally, ratchet refers to behaviors and cultural expressions of Black people that sit outside of normative, middle-class respectable codes of conduct. Ratchet can function both as a tool for critiquing bad Black behavior, and as a tool for resisting the notion that there are such things as ?good? and ?bad? behavior in the first place. This book takes seriously the way ratchet operates in the everyday lives of middle-class and upwardly mobile Black Queer women in Washington, DC who, because of their sexuality, are situated outside of the norms of (Black) respectability. The book introduces the concept of ?ratchet/boojie cultural politics? which draws from a rich body of Black intellectual traditions which interrogate the debates concerning what is and is not ?acceptable? Black (middle-class) behavior. Placing issues of non-normative sexuality at the center of the conversation about notions of propriety within normative modes of Black middle-class behavior, this book discusses what it means for Black Queer women?s bodies to be present within ratchet/boojie cultural projects, asking what Black Queer women?s increasing visibility does for the everyday experiences of Black queer people more broadly. 606 $aEthnology 606 $aAfrican Americans 606 $aSociology 606 $aLinguistic anthropology 606 $aCommunication 606 $aCultural Anthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411060 606 $aAfrican American Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411020 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 606 $aLinguistic Anthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12020 606 $aMedia and Communication$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/412010 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aAfrican Americans. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aLinguistic anthropology. 615 0$aCommunication. 615 14$aCultural Anthropology. 615 24$aAfrican American Culture. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aLinguistic Anthropology. 615 24$aMedia and Communication. 676 $a305.48896073 700 $aLane$b Nikki$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01225677 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484932703321 996 $aThe Black Queer Work of Ratchet$92845736 997 $aUNINA