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This chapter expounds on Harding and colleagues (Chapter “Families, Prisoner Reentry, and Reintegration”), to explore the possibilities and experiences researchers might capture through a sustained and increased focus on black LGBT Americans. Drawing on key insights from Audre Lorde (Sister outsider: Essays and speeches, 1984) and Malcolm X (The ballot or the bullet, 1964), this chapter expands the notion of family and familial support to include chosen families—the combined love and support drawn from fictive kinship ties. The chapter offers key questions and paths for continued exploration of the role of family and reentry in the context of incarceration.
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To be sure, black sexualities are varied in their expressions and have been a key subject for study by researchers. It is clear that the role of sex and sexual orientation in organizing human life is huge and critically important for explaining and apprehending the social world. How black Americans think about themselves and their bodies has been shown to have a real impact on their actions and attitudes toward other black people, sexual partners, and familial arrangements.
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Hunter, M.A. (2016). On Audre and Malcolm’s Advice. In: M. Burton, L., Burton, D., M. McHale, S., King, V., Van Hook, J. (eds) Boys and Men in African American Families. National Symposium on Family Issues, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43847-4_11
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