Roderick A. Ferguson

Author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique

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Roderick A. Ferguson is Professor of African American and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and President of the American Studies Association.

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Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004) 173 copies, 1 review

The reorder of things : the university and its pedagogies of minority difference (2012) 37 copies

One-Dimensional Queer (2018) 34 copies

We Demand: The University and Student Protests (2017) 33 copies

Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011) 32 copies

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Social Text 84-85: What's Queer about Queer Studies Now? (2005) — Contributor — 27 copies

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Canonical name: Ferguson, Roderick A.
Birthdate: 1972-03-01
Gender: male
Education: University of California (PhD|Sociology)
University of California (M.A.|Sociology)
Howard University (B.A.|Sociology)
Organizations: American Quarterly
University of Minnesota
American Studies Association
University of Illinois
Yale University
Awards and honors: Kessler Award (2020)

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Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique (Critical American Studies) by Roderick A. Ferguson

If only for the chapter where he discusses the missing chapter (!) from [a:Ralph Ellison|7508|Ralph Ellison|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200336431p2/7508.jpg]'s [b:Invisible Man|16981|Invisible Man|Ralph Ellison|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255763439s/16981.jpg|170957], this book is worth the perusal. Ferguson's focus is on the intersection between some pretty effed-up sociological 'findings', women of color feminist and queer of color criticism, and African American history and show more literary texts (particularly Invisible Man, Wright's [b:Native Son|15622|Native Son|Richard Wright|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676407s/15622.jpg|3159084], Morrison's [b:Sula|11346|Sula|Toni Morrison|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266450367s/11346.jpg|3207953], and Baldwin's [b:Go Tell It on the Mountain|17143|Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)|James Baldwin|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166804459s/17143.jpg|1027995]). It's a dense read but an ultimately eye-opening look at American history in general particularly through the lens of the discourse on and treatment of nonheteronormative African Americans. show less

Feb 21, 2021