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African America's 3rd Rail: SGL
Max Smith
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Price: $19.95
Paperback | 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-615-28206-0 |
Summary
African Americans have thoughts and ideas regarding same gender love which rarely are informed by the experiences of openly SGL people who live within Black communities. This book links racism to homophobia and economic exploitation due to the history of Africans in America learning Christianity during slavery: when literacy and criticism of the social order were forbidden. The first generation of Black Americans to actively fight racism, sexism and homophobia, in the first decade of the 21st Century has reached middle age. This book documents many actual events that resulted in very different ways of thinking among same gender loving people of African descent in America. This book seeks to open an ongoing dialog between same gender loving people within the African American community and heterosexuals who may have outdated or homophobic views, to promote human rights for all people.
About the Author
Max Smith is a lifelong political and cultural activist. A 1976 graduate of Michigan State University, he was a founder of United Faith Affinitas Church, the Chicago chapter of National Coalition of Black Gays, served as president of Adodi Chicago, and has written columns in Blacklines and Identity magazines. He authored the forward looking essay "By the year 2000" in In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, published in 1986. In 2004 he edited STAYING POWER, a book on Black male same gender loving relationships
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