Abstract
This chapter provides a description and critical analysis of Noah’s Arc, a Logo cable television series featuring a predominantly African American gay male cast. Queer theory and quare studies are used as theoretical tools to examine the conceptions of blackness in general as well as representations of blackness in Noah’s Arc. Thereafter this chapter turns to an analysis of the representations in this series to illustrate how Noah’s Arc not only queers and quares notions of authentic blackness but also serves to expand various notions of blackness. Finally, this chapter provides a treatment of how whiteness and heteronormativity are implicated in this recent iteration of a racialized queer visibility in popular culture.
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Yep, G.A., Elia, J.P. (2011). Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah’s Arc . In: Peele, T. (eds) Queer Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-29011-6_3
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