Table of Contents

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Introducing MaÂt  1
Part I. quare-womanist-vidicationist movement
1. A Prolegomenon to Justice Hermeneutics and Black Sexual Ethics  17
2. Naming (and Transforming) Justice: (Re)Imagining Black Sexual Ethics  35
Part II. justices
3. Flying Justice: Sun Ra’s Sexuality and Other Afrofutures  71
4. Heterexpectations: Jumping the Broom, Marriage, Democracy, and Entanglement Theory  101
5. Dancing Justice: Just Black HomoSexualities  137
6. Ancient Mixologies: Joel Augustus Rogers and Puzzling Interracial Intimacies  167
7. Black Web: Disrupting Transnational Pornographies for Post(trans)national Humanalities  205
Conclusion. Re-covering MaÂt  245
Notes  255
Bibliography  293
Index  313
 

About the Author

jennifer susanne leath is Assistant Professor in Black Religion at Queen’s University.

Reviews

“Shaped by a quare-womanist-vindicationist lens, jennifer susanne leath gives us a vision of justice-both old and new-centered in a deep, complex, and genre-shattering Black sexual ethics that is seething with justices that affirm our being and personhood. This exciting must-read offers us a new and more inclusive vision of a future for all.” - Emilie M. Townes, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University “Carving out a new pathway for grappling with the Du Boisian Negro problem and the perennial crisis of American democracy, Black, Quare, and Then to Where offers a creative, compelling, and stunning exploration into how Pan-Africanism and Black nationalism lay the epistemic groundwork for building a new Black sexual ethics. I don’t know of any other womanists, feminists, or ethicists since Black Power who frame justice as broadly as jennifer susanne leath does in this powerful book.” - Terrence L. Johnson, author of (We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter)