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Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a
strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with
everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to
vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and
sexualities have been the subject of countless public discourses,
black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these
discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars
from across the academy come together to correct this
omission--illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency
and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways
black women regulate their sexual lives.
The twelve original essays in "Black Female Sexualities" reveal the
diverse ways black women perceive, experience, and represent
sexuality. The contributors highlight the range of tactics that
black women use to express their sexual desires and identities. Yet
they do not shy away from exploring the complex ways in which black
women negotiate the more traumatic aspects of sexuality and grapple
with the legacy of negative stereotypes.
"Black Female Sexualities" takes not only an interdisciplinary
approach--drawing from critical race theory, sociology, and
performance studies--but also an intergenerational one, in
conversation with the foremothers of black feminist studies. In
addition, it explores a diverse archive of representations,
covering everything from blues to hip-hop, from "Crash "to
"Precious," from Sister Souljah to Edwidge Danticat. Revealing that
black female sexuality is anything but a black-and-white issue,
this collection demonstrates how to appreciate a whole spectrum of
subjectivities, experiences, and desires.
A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today's
families are being created. From adoption and assisted
reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and
multi-parent families, the stories in Modern Families explain how
individuals make unconventional families by accessing a broad range
of technological, medical and legal choices that expand our
definitions of parenting and kinship. Joshua Gamson introduces us
to a child with two mothers, made with one mother's egg and the
sperm of a man none of them has ever met; another born in Ethiopia,
delivered by his natural grandmother to an orphanage after both his
parents died in close succession, and then to the arms of his
mother, who is raising him solo. These tales are deeply personal
and political. The process of forming these families involved
jumping tremendous hurdles-social conventions, legal and medical
institutions-with heightened intention and inventiveness, within
and across multiple inequities and privileges. Yet each of these
families, however they came to be, shares the same universal joys
that all families share. A companion for all those who choose to
navigate the world of modern kinship, Modern Families provides a
"fascinating look at the remarkable range of experiences that is
broadening the very idea of family" (Booklist).
A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today's
families are being created. From adoption and assisted
reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and
multi-parent families, the stories in Modern Families explain how
individuals make unconventional families by accessing a broad range
of technological, medical and legal choices that expand our
definitions of parenting and kinship. Joshua Gamson introduces us
to a child with two mothers, made with one mother's egg and the
sperm of a man none of them has ever met; another born in Ethiopia,
delivered by his natural grandmother to an orphanage after both his
parents died in close succession, and then to the arms of his
mother, who is raising him solo. These tales are deeply personal
and political. The process of forming these families involved
jumping tremendous hurdles-social conventions, legal and medical
institutions-with heightened intention and inventiveness, within
and across multiple inequities and privileges. Yet each of these
families, however they came to be, shares the same universal joys
that all families share. A companion for all those who choose to
navigate the world of modern kinship, Modern Families provides a
"fascinating look at the remarkable range of experiences that is
broadening the very idea of family" (Booklist).
This is the most complete introduction to Unitarian Universalism
available, covering ministry, worship, religious education, social
justice and history. Extensively revised, the sixth edition
prepares readers with resources and information for this crucial
moment in Unitarian Universalism. It, also, gives voice to many
individual Unitarian Universalists - people of all ages, coming
from many backgrounds and holding many beliefs - as they share
their personal and deeply heartfelt testimonies. Contributors
include Rosemary Bray McNatt, Erika Hewitt, Cheryl Walker, Jessica
York, Elizabeth Nguyen, Aisha Hauser and Dan McKanan. The foreword
was written by lifelong Unitarian Universalist Melissa Harris-Perry
- writer, professor, political commentator and editor-at-large at
Elle.com.
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for
African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban
public-school education today, First Class explores an
underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while
opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school
successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil War, citizens of
Washington, DC, opened the Preparatory High School for Colored
Youth, the first black public high school in the United States; it
would later be renamed Dunbar High and would flourish despite Jim
Crow laws and segregation. Dunbar attracted an extraordinary
faculty: its early principal was the first black graduate of
Harvard, and at a time it had seven teachers with PhDs, a medical
doctor, and a lawyer. During the school's first 80 years, these
teachers would develop generations of highly educated, successful
African Americans, and at its height in the 1940s and '50s, Dunbar
High School sent 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as
in too many failing urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar
students are barely proficient in reading and math. Journalist and
author Alison Stewart-whose parents were both Dunbar
graduates-tells the story of the school's rise, fall, and possible
resurgence as it reopens a new, state-of-the-art campus.
Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a
strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with
everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to
vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and
sexualities have been the subject of countless public discourses,
black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these
discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars
from across the academy come together to correct this
omission--illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency
and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways
black women regulate their sexual lives.
The twelve original essays in "Black Female Sexualities" reveal the
diverse ways black women perceive, experience, and represent
sexuality. The contributors highlight the range of tactics that
black women use to express their sexual desires and identities. Yet
they do not shy away from exploring the complex ways in which black
women negotiate the more traumatic aspects of sexuality and grapple
with the legacy of negative stereotypes.
"Black Female Sexualities" takes not only an interdisciplinary
approach--drawing from critical race theory, sociology, and
performance studies--but also an intergenerational one, in
conversation with the foremothers of black feminist studies. In
addition, it explores a diverse archive of representations,
covering everything from blues to hip-hop, from "Crash "to
"Precious," from Sister Souljah to Edwidge Danticat. Revealing that
black female sexuality is anything but a black-and-white issue,
this collection demonstrates how to appreciate a whole spectrum of
subjectivities, experiences, and desires.
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