That's My Heart: Queering Intimacy in Hip-Hop Culture

That's My Heart uses hip-hop culture to illustrate how Black men refashioned their perceptions of intimate relations--that is, relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners--in the post-civil rights era. Here, Antonia Randolph argues that hip-hop culture emphasizes male bonding through male "platonic couples" instead of normative intimate bonds, like heterosexual marriage and the nuclear family. This homosocialization creates "illegible intimacies" that mark men as the appropria...