The relationship between black queer subjects and debasement as portrayed within popular culture texts and films.

Kathryn Bond Stockton is Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Embracing Shame: “Black” and “Queer” in Debasement 1
1. Cloth Wounds, or When Queers Are Martyred to Clothes: Debasements of a Fabricated Skin 39
2. Bottom Values: Anal Economics in the History of Black Neighborhoods 67
3. When Are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling? Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape 101
4. Erotic Corpse: Homosexual Miscegenation and the Decomposition of Attraction 149
5. Prophylactics and Brains: Slavery in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS 177
Conclusion: Dark Camp: Behind and Ahead 205
Notes 223
Bibliography 257
Index 265