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Informationen zum Autor David H. Ikard Klappentext He argues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo. "Ikard's incorporation of autobiographical moments... to show the intersections of the personal and the political,... his candid discussions of his father's sexual abuse of a young female relative, and the various teachable moments he has had with his own daughter and son on a range of issues related to being black in America are quite profound as concrete evidence to support his overall argument [that] white supremacist ideology... continues to inform African American life." - Alice Deck, University of Illinois Zusammenfassung Argues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Hidden In Plain Sight: What Does Black Empowerment in the Twenty-First Century Look Like? 1. White Supremacy Under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World 2. Easier Said than Done: Making Black Feminism Transformative for Black Men 3. All Joking Aside: Black Men, Sexual Assault, and Displaced Racial Angst in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle 4. Boys to Men: Getting Personal about Black Manhood, Sexuality, and Empowerment 5. Rejecting Goldilocks: The Crisis of Normative White Beauty for Black Girls 6. "Stop Making the Rest of Us Look Bad": How Class Matters in the Attacks against the Movie Precious Epilogue: So What Does It All Mean? Notes Bibliography Index
