Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiv, 177 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents how black queer women respond to these conditions: how they destroy DJ booths, argue with one another, dance slowly, and stop partying altogether. Their practices complicate our expectations that life at night, on the queer dance floor, or among black queer community simply feels good. Adeyemi's framework of "feeling right" instead offers a closer, kinesthetic look at how black queer women adroitly manage feeling itself as a complex right they should be afforded in cities that violently structure their movements and energies. What emerges in Feels Right is a sensorial portrait of the critical, black queer geographies and collectivities that emerge in social dance settings and in the broader neoliberal city"--

Subject

1. Nightlife > Illinois > Chicago
2. Sexual minority culture > Illinois > Chicago
3. Sexual minorities > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions
4. Communication and sex > Illinois > Chicago
5. Queer theory > Illinois > Chicago
6. African American lesbians > Illinois > Chicago
7. Communication and sex
8. Nightlife
9. Queer theory
10. Sexual minority culture
11. Sexual minorities
12. Theories
13. African American lesbians
14. African American LGBTQ+ people
15. Social conditions
16. Illinois > Chicago
17. United States

Contents

1. Slo 'Mo and the Pace of Black Queer Life -- Where's the Joy in Accountability? Black Joy at Its Limits -- Ordinary ENERGY -- An Oral History of the Future of Burnout.

Call number

1. Sc E 23-137

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Adeyemi, Kemi, 1985- author.

Title

1. Feels right : black queer women and the politics of partying in Chicago / Kemi Adeyemi.

Publisher

1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2022000024

ISBN

1. 9781478016076 hardcover
2. 1478016078 hardcover
3. 9781478018698 paperback
4. 1478018690 paperback

Research call number

1. Sc E 23-137