dimanche 17 février 2008

Pourquoi investir l'étude des Noirs Queer - Why investigate in Black Queer Studies ?


My investigation on Black Queer Studies comes from a wish to debate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered , queer and race contemporary mindsets as regards historical theories in France. I aim at challenging everyone surfing on my pages, in complicating his or her understandings of seemingly natural ideas about sex/gender,homosexual/heterosexual, but also man/woman and Black/White in European context. That's why my effort to engage in an inter and transdisciplinary approach of history, sociology, psychology, the arts and lanagage through critical theories aims at giving a solid background about black sexual politics in order to destroy settled dichotomies. Note that Patricia Hill Collins says that "Black Sexual Politics is : "a set of ideas and social practices shaped by gender, race, and sexuality that frame Black men and women's treatment of one another as well as how African Americans are perceived and treated by others". But to hone one skills on debating about racism and lean on our daily experience of race, a noneurocentric and heteronormative understanding of Blacks is necessary.
How is it that even nowadays it's difficult for a Black to come out saying to everybody : hey, you know i'm gay ! Hey, you know i'm lesbian ! Hey, you know i'm queer ! Without fear of being stared at like a fool or a mad ? When it's almost easier for the White gays, lesbians, or queers to come out in a White country ? Being a Black Queer is a challenge of everyday standing the weird gaze that the others put on you. When there is no possibility but being courageous to furfill one's choice to fight back and keep on living your live beyond the deshumanising gazes on you, as the hierarchising racialized relationships where some Whites can stand but hate you for being "out of the norm", being not "genuinely Black" or another supposed " heterosexual Black dog ".

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