Black Queer Studies Collection

About the Black Queer Studies Collection

The Black Queer Studies Collection, which is designated digitally through notes in library catalog records, is meant to feature, promote and increase the discoverability of the UT Libraries’ unique holdings in the area of African and African Diasporic Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. The Black Queer Studies Collection is a groundbreaking project in librarianship in that it addresses standard obstacles posed by the Library of Congress Subject Headings and information retrieval systems to locating materials by and about Black Diasporic LGBTQ people.

Titles designated for the collection carry this note, which is searchable in the Library Catalog: "Black Queer Studies Collection."

The collection Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books, edited by Steven G. Fullwood, Reginald Harris, and Lisa C. Moore (Redbone Press/Vintage Entity Press, 2007) makes the collection possible and guides the addition of old and new materials. Titles already owned by the Libraries are being retroactively added to the collection. Additional materials, including books, films and musical recordings, are being added to the collection with subject-designated library funds.

The collection grows with annual support from the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of English, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.