ISBN:
9780814790427
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (480 pages)
Series Statement:
Critical America Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.38/896073
Keywords:
Sexual orientation
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Heterosexism
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Discourse analysis
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Sexism
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Sex role
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African American men Attitudes
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Racism
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Heterosexism - United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In late 1995, the Million Man March drew hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington, DC, and seemed even to skeptics a powerful sign not only of black male solidarity, but also of black racial solidarity. Yet while generating a sense of community and common purpose, the Million Man March, with its deliberate exclusion of women and implicit rejection of black gay men, also highlighted one of the central faultlines in African American politics: the role of gender and sexuality in antiracist agenda. In this groundbreaking anthology, a companion to the highly successful Critical Race Feminism, Devon Carbado changes the terms of the debate over racism, gender, and sexuality in black America. The essays cover such topics as the legal construction of black male identity, domestic abuse in the black community, the enduring power of black machismo, the politics of black male/white female relationships, racial essentialism, the role of black men in black women's quest for racial equality, and the heterosexist nature of black political engagement. Featuring work by Cornel West, Huey Newton, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Houston Baker, Marlon T. Riggs, Dwight McBride, Michael Awkward, Ishmael Reed, Derrick Bell, and many others, Devon Carbado's anthology stakes out new territory in the American racial landscape. --Critical America, A series edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stephancic.
Abstract:
Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Million Man March -- Chapter 1: To March or Not to March: Two Op-eds -- Chapter 2: "Claiming" and "Speaking" Who We Are -- Chapter 3: Buck Passing -- Chapter 4: My Two Mothers, America, and the Million Man March -- Chapter 5: Sadomasochism and the Colorline -- Chapter 6: "Marchin' On" -- Chapter 7: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man -- Part II: Engendering Black Racial Victimhood -- Chapter 8: Pull Together as the Community -- Chapter 9: "You'reTurning Me On" -- Chapter 10: The Social Construction of a Rape Victim -- Chapter 11: The Construction of O.J. Simpson as a Racial Victim -- Chapter 12: Missing in Action -- Chapter 13: The Message of the Verdict -- Chapter 14: The Sexual Diversion -- Part III: Antiracist Discourse Outed -- Chapter 15: Can the Queen Speak? -- Chapter 16: Signifying on the Black Church -- Chapter 17: Black Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights -- Chapter 18: My Gay Problem, Your Black Problem -- Chapter 19: Black Macho Revisited -- Chapter 20: On Eldridge Cleaver -- Chapter 21: Baraka's Dilemma -- Chapter 22: AIDS in Blackface -- Chapter 23: Fixing the Faggot -- Chapter 24: The Elixir of Dennis Rodman -- Part IV: Black Male Feminism, Seixsm, or Paternalism? -- Chapter 25: A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism -- Chapter 26: The Challenge and Possibility for Black Males to Embrace Feminism -- Chapter 27: The Women's Liberation and the Gay Liberation Movements -- Chapter 28: Some African American Males' Perspectives on Black Women -- Chapter 29: Silent Acquiescence -- Chapter 30: "You Cain't Trus' It" -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Permissions -- Index.
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