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The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
by Smith, Barbara | PB | Good
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- Publication Name
- Truth That Never Hurts : Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
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The Truth That Never Hurts brings together for the first time more than two decades of literary criticism & political thought about gender, race, sexuality, power & social change. As one of the first writers in the United States to claim Black feminism for Black women in the early seventies, this authors works has been ground breaking in defining a Black women's literary tradition; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of Black & other women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians & gay men; & in making connections between race, class, sexuality, & gender. Her essay "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," is often cited as a major catalyst in opening the field of Black women's literature. This essay also presented the first serious discussion of Black lesbian writing. Essays about racism in the women's movement, Black & Jewish relations, & homophobia in the Black community have ignited dialogue about topics that few other writers address. The collection also brings together topical political commentaries that examine the 1968 Chicago convention demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Senate hearings; & police brutality against Rodney King & Abner Louima. It also includes a never before published personal essay on racial violence, the day-to-day life of Kitchen Table Press, & the bonds between Black women that make it possible to survive. This authors writing offers a rare combination of intellectual challenge & an accessible personal voice. her commitment to telling the truth about difficult, even volatile issues, makes a unique contribution to American literature & social thought.
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Rutgers University Press
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0813527619
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9780813527611
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Publication Name
Truth That Never Hurts : Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
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Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13 Oz
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In these essays, Smith, an independent scholar and editor, explores several explosive issues, among them sexual politics, racism and women's studies, and homophobia., The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom provides a universal message about struggle, resistance, and freedom, grounded within a black Lesbian feminist critique of AmericaÆs culture and politics. The cogently written essays represent a cross-section of SmithÆs work over the past twenty years and the first book dedicated exclusively to her own writing. Focusing on race, feminism, and the politics of sexuality, Smith provides an alternative lens to view the world by making connections between systems of oppression and offering suggestions for social change., A feminist writer and theorist of some repute, Smith founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press with the late "black lesbian mother warrior feminist poet" Audre Lorde, and was the first woman of color appointed to the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. Her seminal 1977 essay "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," which puts forth the notion that a "Black women's literary tradition" not only exists, but thrives, fittingly opens this collection of newer and older, still vibrant works, most previously published in often hard-to-find journals or anthologies. Noting that "it is unnerving to imagine" what kind of writing she might have produced had she not come out, Smith registers obstacles to her current work on a wide-ranging history of black lesbians and gays in America, citing a recent two-volume encyclopedia (Darlene Clark Hine's Black Women in America) in which there are only six entries under "Lesbian." In the final essay of the collection, "A Rose," Smith recalls her friend, the late Lucretia "Lu" Medina Diggs, and mourns the loss of her and Lorde, stressing that she will not be deterred from her fight for political awareness and compassion. Smith's writing frequently reaches strident polemicist peaks, but, just as frequently, stretches of sublime prose translate her crystalline intellect to the page, exciting both mind and senses., Barbara Smith is visionary, courageous, and insightful. Her work provides a crucial challenge to all of us., Barbara Smith's uncompromising intelligence helped invent the politics of intersection which grounds progressive thinking today. These essays deliver trenchant analysis from one of the most original, astute, and practical thinkers in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender movement., As a black lesbian feminist activist and scholar, Smith is a highly respected voice of conscience who speaks discomforting but necessary truths about the interlocking nature of oppressions within American culture and institutions. These landmark essays . . . show Smith challenging academic, political, and community organizations to expand their missions in order to include persons who have been perennially at the margins of our society. . . . Recommended., A provocative collection of impassioned essays written from a radical, gay, African-American, feminist perspective. Smith, co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, has been publishing literary and social criticism for over 20 years. As a literary critic, she chastises the academic establishment for often misinterpreting and largely disregarding the voices of black womengay black women in particular. In one of her most influential essays, ''Toward a Black Feminist Criticism,'' written in 1977, Smith, contending that ''black women writers constitute an identifiable literary tradition,'' pleads for a black feminist approach toward examining literature. Only the black feminist critic, she argues, is fully able to comprehend the nuances of work by black women, such as the depth of Sula and Nells relationship in Toni Morrisons novel Sula. Smith is also critical of nonlesbians addressing the black lesbian experience. In ''The Truth that Never Hurts,'' published in the late '80s, she argues that positive depictions of black lesbians are sorely lacking and that ''far too many non-lesbian black women who are actively involved in defining the African-American womens literary renaissance . . . completely ignore black lesbian existence or are actively hostile to it.'' Smiths equally fervent social and political writings are informed by a Marxist viewpoint. She argues, sometimes unpersuasively, that heterosexism and sexism can wither only when capitalism is destroyed. Shes especially concerned about the lack of role models for gay black youth; and she takes to task her gay brothers and sisters who have chosen to stay closeted because they are ''more concerned with their individual security and careers than they are with building community and working for radical political change.'' This manifesto is always challenging and often convincing., Sobering in what it has to tell us, The Truth That Never Hurts forces us to face those truths that disrupt the placid surfaces of our lives. A personal/political odyssey that documents some of the most critical moments in the last three decades of our national life, Smith's book forces us to new levels of awareness. Her piercing eye and uncompromising search for human justice for all make this volume must-reading for everyone who cares about the future., At every moment of serious political crisisùand no thinking person can argue that ours is not such a momentùcertain writers step forward with words that seem to ring from the very heart of history. Barbara Smith is certainly one of these writers, and her new book, electrifying, thought-provoking, illuminating, eloquent, harsh, and funny, is essential reading. Whether you agree with everything she says is not important; the essays in this book will revivify your heart and mind and reawaken a passion for activism and for justice., The ancestors are surely ecstatic about the diligence, courage, passion, and good humor exhibited in The Truth That Never Hurts . This is a landmark work from a pioneering activist who has always kept the faith., Smith's book is an excellent example of powerful, introspective writing that challenges readers to reexamine their stance on complex issues concerning race and gender., Smith has provided us with a collection of erudite and profoundly moving writings [which are] smart, incisive, and instructive. There is no stone that Smith has left unturned. From homophobia in the black community to police brutality and including racism in the womenÆs movement, black women and anti-Semitism . . . Barbara Smith has explained the linkages between the multiplicity of oppressions facing blacks in general and black lesbians in particular.
Table of Content
Toward a Black feminist criticism The souls of Black women Sexual politics and the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston Naming the unnameable : the poetry of Pat Parker The truth that never hurts : Black lesbians in fiction in the 1980s We must always bury our dead twice : a tribute to James Baldwin African American lesbian and gay history : an exploration Racism and women's studies The tip of the iceberg The Rodney King verdict Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around : reflections on the Hill-Thomas hearings Homophobia : why bring it up? The NEA is the least of it Blacks and gays : healing the great divide Between a rock and a hard place : relationships between Black and Jewish women Chicago firsthand : a distortion of reality Working for liberation and having a damn good time Doing it from scratch : the challenge of Black lesbian organizing Where's the revolution? Where's the revolution? Part II A rose
Copyright Date
2000
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, American / African American, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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Scholarly & Professional
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Political Science
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