Allen presents a history of what he names “Black gay habits of mind.” Despite moving between various places around the world, this work is more “an ethnography of an idea” than multi-sited fieldwork. In his recent book, There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Keywords: Black gay life, Black history, queer history, Blackfullness, blackness ALLEN, 2021, There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 448 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4780-2189-6 There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life Anthropology Book Forum open access book reviews ~ ISSN: 2380-7725