Birthing America's Kweer: Motherless Children Preach the Gospel of Mercy
Birthing America's Kweer: Motherless Children Preach the Gospel of Mercy
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press
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[...]these songs have lain the foundation for what I call the great American kweer,3 a too-long-dead word pronounced the same as its fraught allomorph queer that I resurrect here because it encompasses more of “the strange meaning of being black,” the liminal space Du Bois and other orphans know intimately, than its descendant ever could. For insid...
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Birthing America's Kweer: Motherless Children Preach the Gospel of Mercy
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2330806174
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2470-9506
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2474-8102
