Citing Right/Right to Cite: A Black Feminist Reflection on Citation.

In her book I Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago i , Black queer performance scholar Kemi Adeyemi examines Black queer women's practices of night life.[1] However, Adeyemi "refuses the urge to narrativize black queer (night)life as a utopian outlet from neoliberal rule" (5). "You don't know what the hell you're talking about", writes cultural luminary Zora Neale Hurston in a letter to her collaborator and benefactor, Dorothy Waring (qtd. in [4]). According to biographer Valerie Boyd, Waring pressed Hurston to make the musical have "a sort of Gershwinesque feeling" (374) - that is, Waring desired for the musical to be written in the style of popular music and musical theatre icons George and Ira Gershwin. Google Scholar Google Scholar 6 McKittrick, Katherine. [Extracted from the article]