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Lester, Andrew. Radical encounters: Black power, gay liberation, and the emergence of queer of color organizing. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-w75m-nx14

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TitleRadical encounters: Black power, gay liberation, and the emergence of queer of color organizing
NameLester, Andrew (author); Stewart-Winter, Timothy (chair); Feldstein, Ruth (member); Cortés, Jason (member); Lecklider, Aaron (member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-10 (degree)
SubjectLGBTQ studies, African American studies, Gender studies, Black power, Gay liberation, Lesbian of color feminism, New left, Queer of color, Third world liberation
Extent340 pages : illustrations
Description“Radical Encounters” foregrounds the impact the Black Power movement had on the Third World liberation movement and queer activism, and especially on the emergence of queer of color activism and political thought. In doing so, it offers a genealogy of queer of color organizing and freedom dreams. I argue that the Black Power and gay liberation movements evolved through exchanges between their activists and that their links were more profound and enduring than the relatively brief alliance between the Black Panther Party and gay liberation might suggest. Because Black activists, and especially Black radicals and the Black Panther Party, profoundly shaped these links between different movements, they exerted an outsized influence on the emergence and development of queer of color organizing through the 1970s and beyond. This history reframes the way scholars understand activist alliances, political coalitions, and, more broadly, the relationships between social movements. “Radical Encounters” deliberately toggles between a regional and national scale to argue that the rise of queer of color movements in the US during the early 1970s had its roots in local encounters between activists in the second half of the 1960s. I combine archival research, close reading and literary analysis, and affect theory to examine a series of radical encounters that illuminate overlapping currents between these movements. In tracing this history, I argue that affective transmission facilitated movements' cross-fertilization, as it connected activists on the left across difference and guided them as they innovated new objects of struggle and outlined new political horizons.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-w75m-nx14
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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