Not straight, not white : black gay men from the march on Washington to the AIDS crisis /

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Author / Creator:Mumford, Kevin J., author.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subject:African American gay men.
Gay men, Black -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
African American gay men.
Gay men, Black.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11383418
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Varying Form of Title:Black gay men from the march on Washington to the AIDS crisis
ISBN:9781469628073
1469628074
9781469626857
1469626853
9781469626840
1469626845
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 3, 2021).
Summary:This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism--helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise of black gay identities in historical context, Kevin Mumford explores how activists, performers, and writers rebutted negative stereotypes and refused sexual objectification. Examining the lives of both famous and little-known black gay activists--from James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin to Joseph Beam and Brother Grant-Michael Fitzgerald--Mumford analyzes the ways in which movements for social change both inspired and marginalized black gay men. Drawing on an extensive archive of newspapers, pornography, and film, as well as government documents, organizational records, and personal papers, Mumford sheds new light on four volatile decades in the protracted battle of black gay men for affirmation and empowerment in the face of pervasive racism and homophobia.
Other form:Print version: Mumford, Kevin J. Not straight, not white. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] 9781469626840