“Now This is What I Paid For!”: Black Queer Expatriates in South America’s ‘Black Mecca’
Christina Carney
With a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at San Diego, Christina Carney is an associate professor of Black (Queer) Sexuality Studies in the Departments of Women’s & Gender Studies and Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her latest book, Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego (2025) was published by the University of California Press. Her work has been supported by the University of Missouri Research Board, Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation), and U.S. Fulbright Scholars Program. She has published articles in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, American Quarterly, and Radical History Review. Carney also serves on the editorial board for African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.
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