". . . an intellectual illustration challenging the notion that the black queer is 'not black enough' and both examines and explains 'the frequent representation of the interracial as a device signifying the ideas of nation, authenticity and blackness.'Oct. 17, 2009"
~Brandon Copeland, Feminist Review
"Dunning's text is beneficial to any scholar whose research explores race, gender, and sexuality. Vol. 35, No. 3, Fall 2010"
~MELUS
"The small paperback, light on jargon and devoid of pretension, is eminently readable, permitting Dunning's ideas to transmit fluidly across multifarious dsciplines and research interests in the arts and humanities."
~Benjamin Grimwood, Black Camera
"Queer studies has been disproportionately 'white' and androcentric. . . . Dunning's book helps fill this lacuna. . . . Her prose is concise, cogent, and readable."
~LaShonda Barnett, Sarah Lawrence College
"Dunning uses the trope of interraciality . . . to demonstrate how [it] actually reifies rather than obfuscates the black queer's 'blackness'."
~E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University