A portion of chapter 2 was previously published as “‘Like Signposts on the Road’: The Function of Literacy in Constructing Black Queer Ancestors,” Literacy in Composition Studies 2, no. 1 (2014): 29–53.

Cover illustration: Dream Series No. 5: The Library, by Jacob Lawrence; © 2016 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society, New York.

Names: Pritchard, Eric Darnell author.

Title: Fashioning lives : black queers and the politics of literacy / Eric Darnell Pritchard.

Description: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016018365 | ISBN 9780809335541 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780809335558 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Literacy—Social aspects—United States. | African-American sexual minorities—Social conditions. | African American sexual minorities—Interviews.

Classification: LCC LC151 .P75 2017 | DDC 302.2/2440973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016018365