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Title: Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction by Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride, Donald Weise, Evelyn C. White ISBN: 1-57344-108-2 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A treasure waiting to be discovered
Comment: Black Like Us should be on every bookshelf of people of color. I was born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn; my affinity for the Harlem Renaissance period is strong even today. Each chapter is divided from the1900's ' 2000, and they are appropriately named. A small biography is placed before the excerpt and what book it was taken from.
Devon W. Carbado sectioned the book into different time periods.During the Protest Era a quote jumped off the pages at me "To be white male in America and realize your gayness and find out your opressed is a very different thing than being oppressed all your life as a woman of color." In Harlem during the 1920's we witnessed a cultural firecracker with books like never before. I wonder how many of those books were written from Wallace Thurman's boarding house at 136th Street called the 'Niggerati Manor?' There is an American Folk saying; if you want to keep something secret from black folks put it between the covers of a book. Nowadays that is not the case. With titles like Black Like Us and The Greatest Taboo by Delroy Constantine curiosity is winning. Black Like Us makes me feel proud of the many literary giants included in this work, empowering and sending us love.
It is the stories and quotes from this book that will keep Black Like Us as a reference tool on reader's shelves for years to come. Julie Blackwomon offers an excerpt from Voyages Out 2 titled "Symbols," a short story that reflects Julie's own life. She makes a very intriguing statement, "coming out of the closet is more than just a "gay thing" It is my hope that authors like these in Black Like Us help to cease the homophobia in the gay and heterosexual African American community. I thoroughly enjoyed this treasure and how it examines literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: About Time
Comment: In this world of the politically correct parry, it's good to know that the folks at Cleis Press do not suffer from the "me too" school of publishing. With BLU, readers are taken on an omnibus of writers that expand traditional boundaries of race and sexual preference. And it's about time. If you care about expanding your consciousness and folks who seek to shed light where there was none or little, then get a copy of BLU and get on the bus.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding
Comment: Black Like Us is a must have for those who love history and literature--gay, straight, black, white or otherwise. The introductory essays alone are worth the price of admission. B.L.U. is an instant classic.
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Title: The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities by Delroy Constantine-Simms, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ISBN: 1555835643 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Afrekete : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by CATHERINE E. MCKINLEY ISBN: 0385473559 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde ISBN: 0393319725 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities by Will Roscoe, Stephen O. Murray ISBN: 0312238290 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 03 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde ISBN: 0895941414 Publisher: Crossing Press Pub. Date: April, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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