Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality : : A Critical Reader / / ed. by Devon Carbado.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1999]
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Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Critical America ; 57
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I: THE MILLION MAN MARCH
  • 1. To March or Not to March:Two Op-eds
  • 2. “Claiming” and “Speaking” Who We Are
  • 3. Buck Passing
  • 4. My Two Mothers, America, and the Million Man March
  • 5. Sadomasochism and the Colorline
  • 6. “Marchin’ On”
  • 7. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
  • PART II: ENGENDERING BLACK RACIAL VICTIMHOOD
  • 8. Pull Together as the Community
  • 9. “You’reTurning Me On”
  • 10. The Social Construction of a Rape Victim
  • 11. The Construction of O. J. Simpson as a Racial Victim
  • 12. Missing in Action
  • 13. The Message of the Verdict
  • 14. The Sexual Diversion
  • PART III: ANTIRACIST DISCOURSE OUTED
  • 15. Can the Queen Speak?
  • 16. Signifying on the Black Church
  • 17. Black Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights
  • 18. My Gay Problem,Your Black Problem
  • 19. Black Macho Revisited
  • 20. On Eldridge Cleaver
  • 21. Baraka’s Dilemma
  • 22. AIDS in Blackface
  • 23. Fixing the Faggot
  • 24. The Elixir of Dennis Rodman
  • PART IV: BLACK MALE FEMINISM, SEXISM, OR PATERNALISM?
  • 25. A Black Man’s Place in Black Feminist Criticism
  • 26. The Challenge and Possibility for Black Males to Embrace Feminism
  • 27. The Women’s Liberation and the Gay Liberation Movements
  • 28. Some African American Males’ Perspectives on the Black Woman
  • 29. Silent Acquiescence
  • 30. “You Cain’t Trus’ It”
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Permissions
  • Index