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1 online resource (xv, 464 pages) |
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Critical America |
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Critical America.
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| Contents |
I. The Million Man March : Racial Solidarity or Division? -- -- To march or not to march : two op-eds (Why I didn't march / A. Leon Higginbotham ; Why I'm marching in Washington / Cornel West) -- "Claiming" and "speaking" who we are : Black gays and lesbians, racial politics, and the Million Man March / Darren Lenard Hutchinson -- Buck passing : the media, Black men, O.J., and the Million Man March / Ishmael Reed -- My two mothers, America, and the Million Man March / Luke Charles Harris -- Sadomasochism and the colorline : reflections on the Million Man March / Anthony Paul Farley -- "Marchin' on" : toward a politics for the twenty-first century / Ronald S. Sullivan and Eddie S. Glaude -- Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man / Henry Louis Gates -- -- II: Engendering Black Racial Victimhood -- -- Pull together as the community / Harlon L. Dalton -- "You're turning me on" : the boxer, the beauty queen, and the rituals of gender / Michael Awkward -- The social construction of a rape victim : stories of African-American males about the rape of Desirée Washington / Kevin Brown -- The construction of O.J. Simpson as a racial victim / Devon W. Carbado -- Missing in action : race, gender, and Black students' educational opportunities / Walter R. Allen -- The message of the verdict : a three-act morality play starring Clarence Thomas, Willie Smith, and Mike Tyson / Charles R. Lawrence -- The sexual diversion : the Black man/Black woman debate in context / Derrick Bell |
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III: Antiracist Discourse Outed -- -- Can the queen speak? racial essentialism, sexuality, and the problem of authority / Dwight A. McBride -- Signifying the Black church / Charles I. Nero -- Black rights, gay rights, civil rights : the deployment of race/sexual orientation analogies in the debates about the "Don't ask, don't tell" polity / Devon W. Carbado -- My gay problem, your Black problem -- Earl Ofari Hutchinson -- Black macho revisited : reflections on a SNAP! queen / Marlon T. Riggs -- On Eldridge Cleaver : he is no James Baldwin / Huey P. Newton -- Baraka's dilemma : to be or not to be? / Ron Simmons -- AIDS in blackface / Harlon L. Dalton -- Fixing the faggot : Black subjectivity as "autocartography" in the work of Lyle Ashton Harris / B.E. Myers -- The elixir of Dennis Rodman : race, sexual orientation, and anti-essentialism / Jerome McCristal Culp -- -- IV: Black Male Feminism, Sexism, or Paternalism? -- -- A Black man's place in Black feminist criticism / Michael Awkward -- The challenge and possibility for Black males to embrace feminism / Luke Charles Harris -- The women's liberation and the gay liberation movements / Huey P. Newton -- Some African American males' perspectives on the Black woman / Rufus Burrow -- Silent acquiescence : the to-high price of prestige / Derrick Bell -- "You can't trus' it" : expert witnessing in the case of rape / Houston A. Baker |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African American men -- Attitudes
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Racism -- United States
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Sex role -- United States
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Sexism -- United States
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Sexual orientation -- United States
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Heterosexism -- United States
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Discourse analysis -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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African American men -- Attitudes.
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Discourse analysis.
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Heterosexism.
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Racism.
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Sex role.
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Sexism.
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Sexual orientation.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carbado, Devon W., editor.
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| ISBN |
0585425019 |
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9780585425016 |
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9780814790427 |
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0814790429 |
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