Snapping Beans: Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South (SUNY series in Black Women's Wellness) - Softcover

Canty, Jayme N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438498918 ISBN 13: 9781438498911

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2025

Synopsis

Snapping Beans offers a collective narrative of Southern queer lesbian women and gender-nonconforming persons. Throughout the text, the American South acts as both a region and a main character, one that can shame and condemn but also serve as a site of reconciliation. Blending autoethnography and oral histories, Jayme N. Canty explores how both geographic location and social spaces, such as the Church, intersect with categories such as race, gender, and sexuality to shape and mark identity. Just as the intergenerational practice of snapping beans provides an opportunity to slow down, Canty enables readers to make space and to hear a new Southern narrative. Filled with both hurt and healing, Snapping Beans chronicles a multivocal journey of coming out, ultimately revealing a South where Black queer lesbians not only live but also, more importantly, thrive.

About this title

About the Author

Jayme N. Canty is iCubed affiliated faculty in the Intersections in the Lives of LGBTQIA+ persons core and Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438498918
• ISBN 13: 9781438498911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252