ISBN:
0585271984
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Men and masculinity 2
DDC:
305.389664097471
Keywords:
African American gays New York (State)
;
New York
;
Gay communities New York (State)
;
New York
;
AIDS (Disease) New York (State)
;
New York
;
Electronic books
;
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions
Abstract:
Toward the conclusion of the research for this ethnography, "African-American" began to replace "black" as the descriptor of choice for Americans of African heritage. Debate in the academic and popular black press continues. I have retained black for a variety of reasons: my informants used this term for themselves throughout the research; the obvious dichotomy between black and white has important implications for the residents of Harlem who utilize these terms to separate "us" from "them"; and most of my informants, who were educated in the 1960s and 1970s, regard "being black" as a positive form of self-identification. African-American was used by two of my informants after the research period came to an end.
Note:
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