“Out” in the club: The down low, hip-hop, and the architexture of black masculinity

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 298-314

  McCune, Jeffrey Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Masculinity; Closet; Down Low; Hip Hop; Performance Ethnography; Queer World Making

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749138336     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930802107415     Document Type: Article

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