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Reaching Ninety (Hardcover)
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Reaching Ninety (Hardcover)
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Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community’s maverick thinkers
and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in
the movement, and what he’s learned. In the early Sixties, Martin
Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the
Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as
“misguided fanatics.” In 1964, his documentary play, In White
America, which reread the history of racist oppression in this
country, toured the country—most notably during Freedom
Summer—and became an international hit. Duberman then took on the
profession of history for failing to admit the inherent
subjectivity of all re-creations of the past. He radically
democratized his own seminars at Princeton, for which he was
excoriated by powerful professors in his own department, leading
him to renounce his tenured full professorship and to join the
faculty of the CUNY Graduate School. At CUNY, too, he was initially
blocked from offering a pioneering set of seminars on the history
of gender and sexuality, but after a fifteen-year struggle
succeeded in establishing the Center for Gay and Lesbian
Studies—which became a beacon for emerging scholars in that new
field. By the early Seventies, Duberman had broadened his struggle
against injustice by becoming active in protesting the war in
Vietnam and in playing a central role in forming the National
Lesbian and Gay Task Force and Queers for Economic Justice. Down to
the present-day he continues through his writing to champion those
working for a more equitable society.
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