{"product_id":"get-yo-life-r-j-millhouse-9780814259405","title":"Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking","description":"In \u003ci\u003eGet Yo' Life, \u003c\/i\u003e R. J. Millhouse incorporates gender and sexuality studies, archival work, performance studies, and urban studies to craft a historical geography of Black queer public life and culture from the 1960s onward. He does so via case studies of two Brooklyn nightclubs, Langston's Brooklyn and Happiness Lounge, as patrons fought to preserve their spaces and community in the face of gentrification. Introducing Black queer spatiality as an analytic method and a type of intersectionality-driven memory work, Millhouse teases out the nuanced functions of care work, performance, and kinship labor, along with attendant sensational, atmospheric, and nostalgic factors, as they inform Black queer placemaking practices. These practices--such as resource fairs, vogue competitions, and the appropriation of public parks as communal places--often face opposition from the police or well-to-do, mostly white, neighbors. Yet, they remain vital sites of Black queer agency. By focusing on the structural powers that condition the lives and placemaking and placekeeping strategies of Black queer people in Brooklyn, Millhouse reveals the ways in which people make and preserve place amid state-sanctioned displacement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. J. Millhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"R. J. Millhouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451224871167,"sku":"9780814259405","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ca058d0-b516-4afb-95af-90c196b57ff8.jpg?v=1735876834","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/get-yo-life-r-j-millhouse-9780814259405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}