Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora(English, Paperback, Braziel Jana Evans)

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Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora(English, Paperback, Braziel Jana Evans) is written by Braziel Jana Evans and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253219787 (ISBN 10) and 9780253219787 (ISBN 13).

Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo negs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferriere, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dred (a.k.a. Mildred Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora.