Afro-Queer Studies

Black Queer Studies

Librarian's Choice

Henderson, Mae, and E. Patrick Johnson. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Print. 

Johnson, E Patrick. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.

Afro-Queer Identities Resources

Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International: Thirty-Year Retrospective of Black Queer Studies Issue (Volume 9, Issue 2, 2020) provides a retrospective view of Afro-Queer folk in the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and the Global South.  

The Journal of African American History: LGBT Themes in African American History Special Issue (Spring 2019, Vol. 104 Issue 2) explores the historical intersectionality of civil rights, culture, family, gender, health, law enforcement, performing arts, and social justice in LGBT and African American communities.

Oxford Bibliographies A bibliographic driven database that provides access to annotated research guides in African Studies, LGBTQIA, Music, Public Health and other topics:

Race and Sexuality -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756384-0247

LGBTI Minorities and Queer Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199846733-0216

Sexualities in Africa -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199846733-0215

The Queer Studies Collections in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center includes the personal papers of James Baldwin, Cheryl Clarke, Jewell Gomez, Bill Gunn and; the organizational papers of In the Life Archive (ITLA) miscellaneous collections, 1950s-2010,  Jamaica Gay Freedom Movement records, 1973-2003, StoryCorps Black LGBTQ archive, 2004-2013 and; related media materials.