The Truth That Never Hurts 25th anniversary edition : : Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom / / Barbara Smith.
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 ma...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 0 illustrations |
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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