After the Party. Joshua Chambers-Letson

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      AFTER THE PARTY

      SEXUAL CULTURES

      General Editors: Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers-Letson

      Founding Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini

      Titles in the series include:

      Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

      Samuel R. Delany

      Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism

      Edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV

      Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces

      Juana María Rodríguez

      Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance

      Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini

      Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture

      Frances Négron-Muntaner

      Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era

      Marlon Ross

      In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

      J. Jack Halberstam

      Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality

      Dwight A. McBride

      God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence

      Michael Cobb

      Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual

      Robert Reid-Pharr

      The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory

      Lázaro Lima

      Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

      Dana Luciano

      Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

      José Esteban Muñoz

      Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism

      Scott Herring

      Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

      Darieck Scott

      Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

      Karen Tongson

      Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

      Martin Joseph Ponce

      Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled

      Michael Cobb

      Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

      Eng-Beng Lim

      Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law

      Isaac West

      The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

      Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride

      Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings

      Juana María Rodríguez

      Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism

      Amber Jamilla Musser

      The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies

      Rachel C. Lee

      Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men

      Jane Ward

      Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

      Uri McMillan

      A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire

      Hiram Pérez

      Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality

      Katherine Franke

      Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique

      Robert F. Reid-Pharr

      Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible

      Malik Gaines

      The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia

      Gayle Salamon

      Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

      Melissa M. Wilcox

      After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

      Joshua Chambers-Letson

      For a complete list of books in the series, see www.nyupress.org

      After the Party

      A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

      Joshua Chambers-Letson

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      Sections of chapter 2 first appeared in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, special issue on “Living Labor: Marxism and Performance,” vol. 26, nos. 2–3 (2016), edited by Aliza Shvarts and Joshua Lubin-Levy. Other sections also appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, special issue on “Reproduction and Performance,” edited by Rebecca Schneider. Vol. 62, no. 1, 2018. A subvention to support publication of After the Party was generously provided by Northwestern University’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

      References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano, author.

      Title: After the party : a manifesto for queer of color life / Joshua Chambers-Letson.

      Description: New York : New York University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017055001 | ISBN 978-1-4798-9017-0 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4798-3277-4 (pb : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Queer theory. | Performance art. | Minorities—Social conditions.

      Classification: LCC HQ76.25 .C425 2018 | DDC 306.7601—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017055001

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