Traps : African American men on gender and sexuality / edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Byrd, Rudolph P.
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2001], ©2001.
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.
Feminism > United States.
Physical Description:xix, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The rights of women / Frederick Douglass
  • Give women fair play / Frederick Douglass /
  • I am a radical woman suffrage man / Frederick Douglass
  • The Black woman of the south / Alexander Crummell
  • The damnation of women / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • "When and where [we] enter" / Gary L. Lemons
  • 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 / Manning Marable
  • Breaking silences / Calvin Hernton
  • On becoming anti-rapist / Haki R. Madhubui
  • The sexual diversion / Derrick Bell
  • A Black man's place in Black feminist criticism / Michael Awkward
  • Men / Nathan McCall
  • Mission statement of Black men for the eradication of sexism, Morehouse College
  • 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 / Gerald Early
  • It's raining men / Robert F. Reid-Pharr
  • Dear Minister Farrakhan / Men Stopping Violence
  • Black men in the movies / Edward Guerrero
  • 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 / Joseph Beam
  • Black macho revisited / Marlon Riggs
  • Does your mama know about me? / Essex Hemphill
  • Black sexuality / Cornel West
  • When you divide body and soul, problems multiply / Michael Eric Dyson
  • "Ain't nothin' like the real thing" / Kendall Thomas
  • Epilogue / Reflections of Black manhood.