"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."
Charles Johnson
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."
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