Traps : African American men on gender and sexuality

Traps : African American men on gender and sexuality /

"Traps is the first anthology that historicizes the writings by African American men who have examined the meanings of the overlapping categories of race, gender, and sexuality, and who have theorized these categories in the most expansive and progressive terms. Traps contains the landmark spee...

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Online Access: Access full-text online via JSTOR
Imprint: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2001]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
African American men > Attitudes.
African American men > Sexual behavior.
African American men > Psychology.
Masculinity > United States.
Homophobia > United States.
African Americans > Race identity.
Man-woman relationships > United States.
Sex role > United States.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American sexual minorities > Social conditions.
African American gay men > Social conditions.
Feminism > United States.
Womanism > United States.
Feminism and racism > United States.
African American feminists > Attitudes.
Male feminists > Attitudes.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. The tradition of John : a mode of Black masculinity / Rudolph P. Byrd
  • Part one. Remembering our forefathers : pioneering perspectives on the rights and education of women. The rights of women ; Give women fair play ; I am a radical woman suffrage man / Frederick Douglass
  • The Black woman of the South : her neglects and her needs / Alexander Crummell
  • The damnation of women / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • "When and where [we] enter" : in search of a feminist forefather : reclaiming the womanist legacy of W.E.B. DuBois / Gary L. Lemons
  • Part two. Disloyalty to patriarchy : resisting sexism. In the days of my youth / Benjamin E. Mays
  • Feminism and equality / Bayard Rustin
  • Women's rights are human rights / Kalamu Ya Salaam
  • Groundings with my sisters : patriarchy and the exploitation of Black women / Manning Marable
  • Breaking silences / Calvin Hernton
  • On becoming anti-rapist / Haki R. Madhubuti
  • The sexual diversion : the Black man/Black woman debate in context / Derrick Bell
  • A Black man's place in Black feminist criticism / Michael Awkward
  • Men : we just don't get it / Nathan McCall
  • Mission statement of Black Men for the Eradication of Sexism, Morehouse College
  • Part three. Meditations from the heart : making meaning out of masculinity. Here be dragons / James Baldwin
  • In the limelight / Arthur J. Robinson, jr.
  • The sexist in me / Kevin Powell
  • A phenomenology of the Black body / Charles Johnson
  • Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Mike's brilliant career : Mike Tyson and the riddle of Black cool / Gerald Early
  • It's raining men : notes on the Million Man March / Robert F. Reid-Pharr
  • Dear Minister Farrakhan : a letter / Men Stopping Violence
  • Black men in the movies : how does it feel to be a problem (and an answer)? / Edward Guerrero
  • Part four. Brother to brother : the politics of desire, sexuality, and homophobia. A letter from Huey to the revolutionary brothers and sisters about the women's liberation and gay liberation movements / Huey P. Newton
  • Brother to brother : words from the heart / Joseph Beam
  • Black macho revisited : reflections of a SNAP! queen / Marlon Riggs
  • Does your mama know about me? / Essex Hemphill
  • Black sexuality : the taboo subject / Cornel West
  • When you divide body and soul, problems multiply : the Black church and sex / Michael Eric Dyson
  • "Ain't nothin' like the real thing" : Black masculinity, gay sexuality, and the jargon of authenticity / Kendall Thomas
  • Epilogue. Reflections on Black manhood / Beverly Guy-Sheftall.

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