Left of Black S5:E11:  Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., (@DrJeffrey2U) Associate Professor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and  Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. McCune is the author of Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing (University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Explaining his decision to discuss Black Male Queer sexuality outside of the metaphor of the closet, Professor McCune admits that many of the men he interviewed for his book described  “the closet was just another carceral space.”

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).

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