An edition of The Greatest Taboo (2001)

The greatest taboo

homosexuality in Black communities

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An edition of The Greatest Taboo (2001)

The greatest taboo

homosexuality in Black communities

1st ed.

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Twenty-eight powerful, provocative essays from academics and writers of all ethnic heritages, genders, and sexuality, including bell hooks, Eric Garber, Seth Clarke Silberman, Gregory Conerly, and Dr. Gloria Wekker-running from 19th-century slave quarters to postapartheid South Africa, from RuPaul to the Wu Tang Clan, from 1920s Harlem to 1995's Million Man March on Washington-provide a clear-eyed societal, cultural, political, and historical view of both the transformation and continued repression of black lesbians and gay men.

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Alyson Books
Language
English
Pages
460

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Subjects
African American arts, Homosexuality, Attitudes, African American churches, African American gays, African Americans, Homophobia, African American gay men, LGBTQ essays, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Gay and lesbian studies
Places
United States, Africa

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Table of Contents

My gay problem, your black problem -- Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Are you black first or are you queer? -- Gregory Conerly
Can the queen speak? Racial essentialism, sexuality, and the problem of authority -- Dwight A. McBride
Safety among strangers: the million man march -- Townsand Price-Spratlen
Homophobia in black communities -- Bell Hooks
Is homosexuality the greatest taboo? -- Delroy Constantine-Simms
Feeling the spirit in the dark : expanding notions of the sacred in the African American gay community -- E. Patrick Johnson
Their own received them not : African American lesbians and gays in black churches -- Horace Griffin -- 0
Lighting the Harlem Renaissance AFire!! : embodying Richard Bruce Nugent's Bohemian politic -- Seth Clark Silberman
The lives of Richmond Barthé -- Margaret Rose Vendryes
Any love : silence, theft, and rumor in the work of Luther Vandross -- Jason King
Hip hop's closet : a fanzine article touches a nerve -- Touré
Bessie Smith : one of the first divas -- Kennette Crockett
The house the kids built : the gay black imprint on American dance music -- Anthony Thomas
A feisty female rapper breaks the hip-hop taboo -- Laura Jamison
Rereading voices from the past : images of homo-eroticism in the slave narrative -- Charles Clifton
Envisioning lives : homosexuality and black popular literature -- Craig Seymour
Swishing and swaggering : homosexuality in black magazines during the 1950s -- Gregory Conerly
Eloquence and epitaph : black nationalism and the homophobic response the death of Max Robinson -- Philip Brian Harper
Containing AIDS : Magic Johnson and post-Reagan America-- Cheryl L. Cole.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Lambda Literary Award, 2001

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Los Angeles, CA

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ76.3.U5 G74 2001, HQ76.3.U5G74 2001

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Pagination
xx, 460 p. ;
Number of pages
460

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15567780M
ISBN 10
1555835643
LCCN
00045391
OCLC/WorldCat
44951992
Library Thing
385784
Goodreads
711654

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