Snapping Beans - Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.
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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jayme N. Canty
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2025
• EAN: 9781438498911
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9891-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY series in Black Women's Wellness
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Of specific Lesbian interest, United States of America, USA, Relating to lesbians, Gay & Lesbian studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Human Geography, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics