Description
Book SynopsisArgues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo.
Trade ReviewSadly, the issues here are as old as race in America, though Ikard's survey of their contemporary forms is instructive. . . . Recommended.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Hidden In Plain Sight: What Does Black Empowerment in the Twenty-First Century Look Like?
1. White Supremacy Under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World
2. Easier Said than Done: Making Black Feminism Transformative for Black Men
3. All Joking Aside: Black Men, Sexual Assault, and Displaced Racial Angst in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle
4. Boys to Men: Getting Personal about Black Manhood, Sexuality, and Empowerment
5. Rejecting Goldilocks: The Crisis of Normative White Beauty for Black Girls
6. "Stop Making the Rest of Us Look Bad": How Class Matters in the Attacks against the Movie Precious
Epilogue: So What Does It All Mean?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
