The Truth That Never Hurts 25th anniversary edition : : Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom / / Barbara Smith.

• VerfasserIn: Smith, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 0 illustrations

Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race, class, sexuality and gender is gathered in The Truth That Never Hurts. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black women's literature, Black lesbian writing, racism in the women's movement, Black-Jewish relations, and homophobia in the Black community. Her forays into these areas ignited dialogue about topics that few other writers were addressing at the time, and which, sadly, remain pertinent to this day. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition, in a beautiful new package, also contains the essays from the original about the 1968 Chicago convention demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate hearings; and police brutality against Rodney King and Abner Louima, which, after twenty-five years, still have the urgency they did when they were first written.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on Citations -- I Toward a Black Feminist Criticism -- Introduction -- Toward a Black Feminist Criticism -- The Souls of Black Women -- Sexual Politics and the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston -- Naming the Unnameable: The Poetry of Pat Parker -- The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s -- We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice: A Tribute to James Baldwin -- African American Lesbian and Gay: History An Exploration -- II Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Introduction -- Racism and Women’s Studies -- The Tip of the Iceberg -- The Rodney King Verdict -- Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around -- Homophobia: Why Bring It Up? -- The NEA Is the Least of It -- Blacks and Gays: Healing the Great Divide -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships between Black and Jewish Women -- III Working for Liberation and Having a Damn Good Time -- Introduction -- Chicago Firsthand: A Distortion of Reality -- Working for Liberation and Having a Damn Good Time -- Doing It from Scratch: The Challenge of Black Lesbian Organizing -- Where’s the Revolution? -- Where’s the Revolution? Part II -- IV A Rose -- Introduction -- A Rose -- Organizations to Contact -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Author