| Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism Contributor(s): Bey, Marquis (Author) |
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ISBN: 081653943X ISBN-13: 9780816539437 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 2018038443 |
| Series: Feminist Wire Books |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marquis Bey's debut collection, Them Goon Rules, is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know. A series of essays that reads like a critical memoir, this work queries the function and implications of politicized Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness. Bey binds together his personal experiences with social justice work at the New York-based Audre Lorde Project, growing up in Philly, and rigorous explorations of the iconoclasm of theorists of Black studies and Black feminism. Bey's voice recalibrates itself playfully on a dime, creating a collection that tarries in both academic and nonacademic realms. Fashioning fugitive Blackness and feminism around a line from Lil' Wayne's "A Millie," Them Goon Rules is a work of "auto-theory" that insists on radical modes of thought and being as a refrain and a hook that is unapologetic, rigorously thoughtful, and uncompromising. |
