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SEXUAL CULTURES: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

General Editors:
José Esteban Muñoz, New York University
and Ann Pellegrini, New York University

Lesbian and gay scholarship suffers from a certain stasis that Sexual Cultures is determined to disrupt, a stasis that derives from an overarching concern with the local, the masculine, and the white subject. Taking lesbian, gay, and sexuality stud ies as its points of departure—and not ends in themselves—books in this series promote scholarship about the lived experiences of sexual minorities.

Mirroring the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, this means maintaining strong activist and community commitments, and forging links between academe and existing queer cultures. In the process, Sexual Cultures expands the definition of what lesbian and gay studies includes, particularly in the areas of race, national ity, religion, and class.

The series entertains manuscripts from a variety of academic disciplines on a wide range of academic and nonacademic subjects. All of the books in Sexual Cultures have critical horizons large enough to take in the current transformations of knowledges, identities, and capital on a shifting world stage. Pursuing scholar ship that can speak across disciplinary boundaries, as well as the border between academic and activist, Sexual Cultures seeks above all to intervene in and enable a vibrant and public queer culture.

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published:

Once You Go Black
Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Robert Reid-Pharr

The Latino Body
Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Lázaro Lima

Arranging Grief
Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Dana Luciano

God Hates Fags
The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
Michael Cobb

Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch
Essays on Race and Sexuality in the U.S.
Dwight A. McBride

In a Queer Time and Place
Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Judith Halberstam

Manning the Race
Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Marlon Ross

Boricua Pop
Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture
Frances Négron-Muntaner

Love the Sin
Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini

Queer Latinidad
Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces
Juana María Rodríguez

Queer Globalizations
Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism
Edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV

The Queerest Art
Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater
Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla

Passing
Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion
Edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg

Black Gay Man
Essays
Robert Reid Pharr, foreword by Samuel R. Delany

Our Monica, Ourselves
The Clinton Affair and the National Interest
Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Samuel R. Delany

Tropics of Desire
Interventions from Queer Latino America
José Quiroga

In Your Face
9 Sexual Studies
Mandy Merck

Private Affairs
Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
Phillip Brian Harper

Murdering Masculinities
Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel
Greg Forter

forthcoming:

Relocations
Emergent Queer Suburban Imaginaries
Karen Tongson

Another Country
Rural Stylistics and the Politics of Queer Anti-Urbanism
Scott Herring

A New Queer Agenda
Edited by Lisa Duggan, Richard Kim, Joseph DeFilippis, and Kenyon Farrow