{"id":32201,"date":"2020-08-07T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=32201"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:51:35","slug":"new-book-by-ana-maurine-lara2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-by-ana-maurine-lara2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: &#8220;Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty&#8221; by Ana-Maurine Lara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/content.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/content.jpg 128w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/content-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty, by Ana-Maurine Lara (SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures Series, 2020, 200 pages).<\/strong> \u201cTheoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, <em>Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty<\/em> is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. The result is a rich ethnography of the ways criollo spiritual practices challenge gender and racial binaries and manifest what Lara characterizes as a shared desire for decolonization. <em>Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty<\/em> is also a ceremonial ofrenda, or offering, in its own right. At its heart is a fundamental question: How can we enable \u201cqueer : black\u201d life in all its forms, and what would it mean to be \u201cfree : sovereign\u201d in the twenty-first century? Calling on the reader to join her in exploring possible answers, Lara maintains that the analogy between these terms\u2014queerness and blackness, freedom and sovereignty\u2014is necessarily incomplete and unresolved, to be determined only by ongoing processes of embodied, relational knowledge production. <em>Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty<\/em> thus follows figures such as Sylvia Wynter, Mar\u00eda Lugones, M. Jacqui Alexander, \u00c9douard Glissant, Mark Rifkin, Gloria Anzald\u00faa, and Audre Lorde in working to theorize a potential roadmap to decolonization.\u201d \u2014<em>from the publisher<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ana-Maurine Lara is an assistant professor of women\u2019s, gender and sexuality studies, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty, by Ana-Maurine Lara (SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures Series, 2020, 200 pages). \u201cTheoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-by-ana-maurine-lara2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,8,17,107,63,696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-issues","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-latinoa-and-latin-american-studies","category-lgbtq","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32202,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions\/32202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}