{"product_id":"raising-the-bottom-by-alix-chapman-9781478033707","title":"Raising the Bottom","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent mass displacement of black neighbourhoods in New Orleans, black queer performers redefined notions of belonging throughout the city. These unlikely figures, such as artists Big Freedia and Vockah Redu, played a significant role in calling the displaced back home and serving as beacons of hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRaising the Bottom\u003c\/em\u003e, Alix Chapman engages in performance ethnography, taking to the stage while writing about the lives of these bounce artists and their extended community. He theorises an epistemology of the bottom—a way of knowing, praxis, and aesthetic—which contests hierarchies of value that place black and queer bodies at the lowest rungs of the social ladder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy engaging in this bottom episteme, bounce performers leverage pleasure and coalition to transform collectives not meant to survive crisis and disaster. \u003cem\u003eRaising the Bottom\u003c\/em\u003e shows how black queer artists address, remix, and redirect stereotypes to amplify community power, pleasure, and solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934195466476,"sku":"9781478033707","price":305.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781478033707-raising-the-bottom.jpg?v=1783903943","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/raising-the-bottom-by-alix-chapman-9781478033707","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}