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The greatest taboo:

homosexuality in Black communities
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Alyson Books, Jan 1, 2001 - Education - 460 pages
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. A journalist and lecturer living in London, Delroy Constantine-Simms is a sociology graduate of the University of Hull and a psychology graduate of the University of East London. He is the author of The Role of Black Educators in Educational Research and (with V. Showunmi) Teachers of the Future.

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Are You Black First Or Are You Queer?
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TitleThe greatest taboo: homosexuality in Black communities
AuthorDelroy Constantine-Simms
EditorDelroy Constantine-Simms
PublisherAlyson Books, 2001
ISBN1555835643, 9781555835644
Length460 pages
Subjects ›  › 

African American arts
African American churches
African American gays
African Americans
African Americans/ Attitudes
Education / Multicultural Education
Homophobia
Homophobia/ United States
Homosexuality
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Social Science / Gay Studies
Social Science / Lesbian Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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