0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R250 - R500 (2)
  • R500 - R1,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 3 of 3 matches in All Departments

Why Does Everything Have to Be about Race? - 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away: Keith Boykin Why Does Everything Have to Be about Race? - 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away
Keith Boykin
R740 R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Save R120 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough - Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home... For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough - Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home (Paperback)
Keith Boykin
R521 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R77 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New York Times bestselling author and CNBC commenter Keith Boykin expands on the "It Gets Better" project by bringing together 25 essays by men of color on the topic of surviving growing up gay. In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published a choreopoem called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book/play/poetry would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and title of a hugely popular movie in the fall of 2010. While the film was selling out movie theaters, young black gay men were literally committing suicide in the silence of their own communities. In the same time period, a young Rutgers University student named Tyler Clementi took his own life after a roommate secretly videotaped him in an intimate setting with another young man. In response, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage created a YouTube video with his partner Terry to inspire young people facing harassment. Their message, It Gets Better, turned into a popular movement, inspiring thousands of user-created videos on the Internet. Savage's project targeted people of all races, backgrounds and colors, but Boykin has created something special "for colored boys." The new book responds to the crisis of youth development and suicide in the black community, and more specifically among young gay men of color. For Colored Boys is designed to educate and inspire those seeking to overcome obstacles in their lives. About the Author Keith Boykin is the editor of The Daily Voice online news site, a CNBC contributor, a BET TV host and a New York Times best-selling author of three books. Educated at Dartmouth and Harvard, Keith attended law school with President Barack Obama and served in the White House as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton. Keith was a star on the 2004 Showtime television series American Candidate and has since appeared on numerous national media programs, including Anderson Cooper 360, The O'Reilly Factor, The Tyra Banks Show, The Montel Williams Show, Judge Hatchett and The Tom Joyner Morning Show. He lives in New York.

One More River to Cross - Black and Gay in America (Paperback, 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed): Keith Boykin One More River to Cross - Black and Gay in America (Paperback, 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed)
Keith Boykin
R480 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R58 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the aftermath of the historic 1993 March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights, Keith Boykin, in One More River to Cross, clarifies the relationship between blacks and gays in America by portraying the "common ground" lives of those who are both black and gay.



Against a backdrop of civil rights and the black experience in America, Boykin interviews Baptist ministers, gay political leaders, and other black gays and lesbians on issues of faith, family, discrimination, and visibility to determine what differences--real and imagined--separate the two communities. Boykin points to evidence of African and precolonial same-sex behavior, as well as figures like James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin, to dispel the myth that homosexuality is a "white thang," while his research suggests that blacks are less homophobic than whites, despite the rhetoric of rap and religion. With stories from his own experience as well as that of other black gays and lesbians, Boykin targets gay racism and black homophobia and suggests that conservative forces have substituted the common language of racism for homophobia in order to prevent a potentially powerful coalition of blacks and gays.



By portraying what it means to be black and gay, One More River to Cross offers an extraordinary window into a community that challenges this country's acceptance of its minorities, both racial and sexual.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
- (Subtract)
Ed Sheeran CD R165 R74 Discovery Miles 740
Vital BabyŽ NOURISH™ Power™ Suction Bowl…
R159 Discovery Miles 1 590
300: Rise of an Empire
Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton, … Blu-ray disc  (1)
R61 Discovery Miles 610
Moonology Diary 2025
Yasmin Boland Paperback R240 Discovery Miles 2 400
ZA Cute Butterfly Earrings and Necklace…
R712 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990
HP 330 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo
R800 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000
The Papery A5 WOW 2025 Diary - Wolf
R349 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000
A Neil Diamond Christmas
Neil Diamond CD R368 Discovery Miles 3 680
Cellphone Ring & Stand [Black]
R22 Discovery Miles 220
700ml Grip Water Bottle
R20 Discovery Miles 200

 

Partners