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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... queer has come to signify , with its original meaning of eccentricity and oddity somewhat blurred . While moffie is an Afrikaans word , often used as a word of defiance by white , Indian , and colored gay men , other words exist in ...
... queer has come to signify , with its original meaning of eccentricity and oddity somewhat blurred . While moffie is an Afrikaans word , often used as a word of defiance by white , Indian , and colored gay men , other words exist in ...
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... Queers may have positioned themselves in a space to deploy the power of representing identity and unity as a form of consciousness raising for the queer community . Yet even as I acknowledge this point , a further weariness sets in . Is ...
... Queers may have positioned themselves in a space to deploy the power of representing identity and unity as a form of consciousness raising for the queer community . Yet even as I acknowledge this point , a further weariness sets in . Is ...
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... queer about being African queers , and perhaps this is what scholars should investigate . CONCLUSION Narratives of knowledge that constitute what we label experience may be used to reconcile the internal , formal , and private ...
... queer about being African queers , and perhaps this is what scholars should investigate . CONCLUSION Narratives of knowledge that constitute what we label experience may be used to reconcile the internal , formal , and private ...
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 |
Copyright | |
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