Discuss Black Queer temporalities and spaces

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This essay is a final project for Contemporary Theory course in sociology. Below is a list of references I have incorporated. Other sources can be used. We are encouraged to use non-traditional forms of writing. This is a paragraph from the guidelines from the instructor, \”Materials covered in this course raise questions about style, composition, and the politics of
form. You are invited not required to experiment with creative writing styles/structures in
your final essay. Remember that constructing an experimental essay form is itself a conceptual
task: it is not easier to write creatively in an academic setting, it is an aesthetic and theoretical
challenge. As with more conventional academic essays, experimental essays will be evaluated
by how carefully and complexly they engage with and work through a focused set of theoretical
issues or preoccupations.\” The focus that I am expected to present is around black queer experience of spaces and time/temporality, post-stonewall.

Berlant, Lauren (2011), Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect, Ch. 5 in Cruel Optimism, Duke University Press, pp. 161-189.

Johnson, E. Patrick, \’Quare\’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother. Text & Performance Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1. (January 2001), pp. 1-25

Freeman, Elizabeth (2010), Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Duke Univ. Press.

Gordon, Avery (2008 [1997]), Ghostly Matters: Hauntings and the Sociological Imagination.

Munoz, Jos Esteban (2009), Queerness as Horizon and Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling, in Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, pp. 19-32, 65- 81.

Sedgwick, Eve (2003), Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Duke Univ. Press.

Stewart, Kathleen (2007), Ordinary Affects. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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