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Tables of Contents for Traps
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvii
Prologue. The Tradition of John: A Mode of Black Masculinity
1
26
Rudolph P. Byrd
PART ONE: REMEMBERING OUR FOREFATHERS
Pioneering Perspectives on the Rights and Education of Women
The Rights of Women
27
2
Frederick Douglass
Give Women Fair Play
29
8
Frederick Douglass
I Am a Radical Woman Suffrage Man
37
9
Frederick Douglass
The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs
46
12
Alexander Crummell
The Damnation of Women
58
13
W. E. B. Du Bois
``When and Where [We] Enter'': In Search of a Feminist Forefather --- Reclaiming the Womanist Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois
71
22
Gary L. Lemons
PART TWO: DISLOYALTY TO PATRIARCHY
Resisting Sexism
In the Days of My Youth
93
18
Benjamin E. Mays
Feminism and Equality
111
2
Bayard Rustin
Women's Rights Are Human Rights
113
6
Kalamu Ya Salaam
Groundings with My Sisters: Patriarchy and the Exploitation of Black Women
119
34
Manning Marable
Breaking Silences
153
5
Calvin Hernton
On Becoming Anti-Rapist
158
10
Haki R. Madhubuti
The Sexual Diversion: The Black Man / Black Woman Debate in Context
168
9
Derrick Bell
A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism
177
17
Michael Awkward
Men: We Just Don't Get It
194
6
Nathan Mccall
Mission Statement of Black Men for the Eradication of Sexism, Morehouse College
200
7
PART THREE: MEDITATIONS FROM THE HEART
Making Meaning Out of Masculinity
Here Be Dragons
207
12
James Baldwin
In the Limelight
219
2
Arthur J. Robinson
The Sexist in Me
221
2
Kevin Powell
A Phenomenology of the Black Body
223
13
Charles Johnson
Thriteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
236
14
Henry Louis Gates
Mike's Brilliant Career: Mike Tyson and the Riddle of Black Cool
250
9
Gerald Early
It's Raining Men: Notes on the Million Man March
259
8
Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Dear Minister Farrakhan: A Letter
267
3
Men Stopping Violence
Black Men in the Movies: How Does It Feel to be a Problem (and an Answer)?
270
11
Edward Guerrero
PART FOUR: BROTHER TO BROTHER
The Politics of Desire, Sexuality, and Homophobia
A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters about the Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements
281
3
Huey P. Newton
Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart
284
8
Joseph Beam
Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a SNAP! Queen
292
5
Marlon Riggs
Does Your Mama Know about Me?
297
4
Essex Hemphill
Black Sexuality: The Taboo Subject
301
7
Cornel West
When You Divide Body and Soul, Problems Multiply: The Black Church and Sex
308
19
Michael Eric Dyson
``Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing'': Black Masculinity, Gay Sexuality, and the Jargon of Authenticity
327
15
Kendall Thomas
Epilogue. Reflections on Black Manhood
342
7
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Selected Bibliography
349
4
Biographies
353
10
Index
363