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Shameless

The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA
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How young Black queer men in Los Angeles reject stigma and stereotypes and instead find pride in their racial and sexual identities Shameless is an in-depth exploration of the ways that young Black gay men in Los Angeles come together to learn how to navigate racial and sexual stigma in everyday interactions. Based on 4 years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork resulting in observations with over 200 young men in a Los Angeles community health organization, in-depth interviews with self-identified Black queer men, observations with gay kinship families, and media content analysis, Terrell J. A. Winder paints a full picture of the socialization and stigma negotiations of young Black gay men. He explains how traditional strategies like passing and covering can become untenable and ineffective for young Black gay men dealing with multiple stigmas simultaneously, who are looking to experience their identities with a sense of pride, rather than as a source of shame.
Terrell J. A. Winder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"Poignant, personal, and powerful! While centering his own journey growing up in Baltimore and spending his college years in New York City as pretext, and the lives of his subjects in present-day Los Angeles, Terrell J.A. Winder intellectually moves beyond the geographical local, brilliantly employs multiple methodologies, and maps out a more global narrative of resilience, cultural inversion, and empowerment. Here, the work doesn't minimize the negative experiences of vulnerable populations. Instead, it challenges the reader to think more dynamically about how the socially oppressed can become individually empowered, while managing stigma shamelessly." - Juan Battle, co-author of Queer People of Color: Connected but Not Comfortable
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