Episode 18 | E .Patrick Johnson on the Oral Histories of Black. Queer. Southern. Women

Author of innumerable books including two award-winning books, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2003), and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South – An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). His latest book is Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History,  is drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South revealing  the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities – all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Johnson is the chair of African American Studies and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.