The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black CommunitiesDelroy Constantine-Simms 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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... rape . Douglass compares his relationship with the " Negro breaker " Covey as that of Douglass with the oxen . " Covey was to break me , I was to break them ; break and be broken - such is life . " Scholars repeatedly emphasize the ...
... rape . Douglass compares his relationship with the " Negro breaker " Covey as that of Douglass with the oxen . " Covey was to break me , I was to break them ; break and be broken - such is life . " Scholars repeatedly emphasize the ...
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... rape of Auld's daughter Amanda . No longer the voyeur , as in the " rape " of Esther , Douglass becomes the one who would pollute , blight , and blast female virtue . In another interpretation Douglass can be seen as taking a much more ...
... rape of Auld's daughter Amanda . No longer the voyeur , as in the " rape " of Esther , Douglass becomes the one who would pollute , blight , and blast female virtue . In another interpretation Douglass can be seen as taking a much more ...
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... rape committed against them , or support for the children produced . Rape was but one method of physical harassment and psychological torture used in the antebellum South to dominate and control enslaved female sexuality . Female ...
... rape committed against them , or support for the children produced . Rape was but one method of physical harassment and psychological torture used in the antebellum South to dominate and control enslaved female sexuality . Female ...
Contents
My Gay Problem Your Black Problem Earl Ofari Hutchinson | 2 |
Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism Sexuality and | 24 |
The Million Man March | 44 |
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