{"product_id":"feels-right-kemi-adeyemi-9781478018698","title":"Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago","description":"In \u003ci\u003eFeels Right\u003c\/i\u003e Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents how black queer women respond to these conditions: how they destroy DJ booths, argue with one another, dance slowly, and stop partying altogether. Their practices complicate our expectations that life at night, on the queer dance floor, or among black queer community simply feels good. Adeyemi's framework of \"feeling right\" instead offers a closer, kinesthetic look at how black queer women adroitly manage feeling itself as a complex right they should be afforded in cities that violently structure their movements and energies. What emerges in \u003ci\u003eFeels Right\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensorial portrait of the critical, black queer geographies and collectivities that emerge in social dance settings and in the broader neoliberal city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kemi Adeyemi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478018690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478018698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.39d","brand":"Kemi Adeyemi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071494648063,"sku":"9781478018698","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a4a0b8c-9b8e-4b94-b4f3-814ae060fe9d.jpg?v=1685436434","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feels-right-kemi-adeyemi-9781478018698","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}