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Introduction: The half-told histories of desegregation
Ambivalent desires: Elizabeth Bishop, Zora Neale Hurston, and domestic desegregation
War city: Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, and the private poetics of public space
White pervert: William Demby, Ann Petry, and the queer desires of racial belonging
Damaged desires: Jo Sinclair, Carl Offord, and the traumas of integration
Conclusion: Intimate failures.
Ambivalent desires: Elizabeth Bishop, Zora Neale Hurston, and domestic desegregation
War city: Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, and the private poetics of public space
White pervert: William Demby, Ann Petry, and the queer desires of racial belonging
Damaged desires: Jo Sinclair, Carl Offord, and the traumas of integration
Conclusion: Intimate failures.