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Breaking the Silence : Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism /
Can black males offer useful insights on black women and patriarchy? Many black feminists are doubtful. Their skepticism derives in part from a history of explosive encounters with black men who blamed feminism for stigmatizing black men and undermining racial solidarity and in part from a perceptio...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Can black males offer useful insights on black women and patriarchy? Many black feminists are doubtful. Their skepticism derives in part from a history of explosive encounters with black men who blamed feminism for stigmatizing black men and undermining racial solidarity and in part from a perception that black male feminists are opportunists capitalizing on the current popularity of black women's writing and criticism. In Breaking the Silence, David Ikard goes boldly to the crux of this debate through a series of provocative readings of key African American texts that demonstrate the possibil. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807135693 |