Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South

by E Patrick Johnson

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This title includes oral histories that reveal a diverse, thriving, overlooked community.Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, ""Sweet Tea"" collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as ""backward"" or ""repressive,"" suggesting that these gay men draw upon the performance of ""southernness"" - politeness, coded speech, and religiosity, for example - to legitimate themselves as members of both southern and black cultures. At the same time, Johnson argues, they deploy those same codes...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780807832097
  • Publish Date 30 September 2008 (first published 15 September 2008)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 June 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 584
  • Language English