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Fiona I. B. Ngô, Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014, $23.95). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 8223 5539 7.

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Fiona I. B. Ngô, Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014, $23.95). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 8223 5539 7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2015

E. TAYLOR ATKINS
E. TAYLOR ATKINS*
Affiliation:
Northern Illinois University
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , August 2015 , E53
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1 Despite its long-standing acceptance for describing a theoretical stance, I remain uncomfortable with the word “queer” because of its origins as an abusive epithet. I am not at all unsympathetic to the overall project of questioning heteronormativity; I simply have no more desire to use this term than I have to use racist or sexist insults, regardless of how they may have been reappropriated and neutered. Thus when it is unavoidable I shall put the word in scare quotes to indicate that it is Ngô's voice, not mine, that utters it.