Trapped in the epistemological closet: Black sexuality and the “ghettocentric imagination”

Souls

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-111

  Snorton, C Riley ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Down low; Popular culture; R. Kelly; Representation; Sexuality; Trapped in the Closet

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952825604     PISSN: 10999949     EISSN: 15483843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10999940902910115     Document Type: Article

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