| Traps Contributor(s): Byrd, Rudolph P. (Editor), Sheftall, Beverly Guy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253214483 ISBN-13: 9780253214485 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Men's Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 305.388 |
| LCCN: 00053539 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.2" W x 9.26" (1.25 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a valuable project. The editors are excellent, well-known scholars, and activists in the academy. --Darlene Clark Hine After looking carefully at Traps' selections, I have to confess that I'm both excited and satisfied by what Rudolph Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall have assembled here from the 19th century to the present. Educators genuinely need a text like this for opening their classroom to critical discussions on the well-worn subjects of race and gender. Traps is the first anthology of writings by 19th- and 20th-century African American men on the overlapping categories of race, gender, and sexuality. The selections on gender in Sections I and II reveal what some may view as the unexpected commitment of African American men to feminism. Included here are critiques of the subordinate social, economic, and political position of black women. Sections III and IV analyze the taboos and myths in which black sexuality is enmeshed. These essays also stress the importance of rejecting homophobia and the need to contest the predominance of a heterosexual paradigm. Monolithic constructions of gender and sexuality, reinforced by sexism and historically sanctioned homophobia, are the traps that give this book its focus and its title. |