One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America - Hardcover

Boykin, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385479824 ISBN 13: 9780385479820

Verlag: Anchor Books, 1996

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Book by Boykin Keith

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Set against a backdrop of the civil rights movement and the 1993 gay and lesbian rights march in Washington, a carefully researched portrait seeks to clarify the relationship between African Americans and the gay community. Tour.

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g the 1993 March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights, leaders of the gay community consciously paralleled Martin Luther King's historic 1963 March on Washington and proclaimed their mission was "a simple matter of justice."  In response, black leaders and ministers across the country challenged any comparison between blacks and gays as offensive and irrational. In One More River to Cross, Keith Boykin clarifies the relationship between blacks and gays in America by portraying the "common ground" lives of those who are both black and gay.

Against a historical backdrop of civil rights and the black experience in America, Boykin interviews Baptist ministers, gay political leaders, and other black gays and lesbians on issues of faith, family, discrimination, and visibility to determine what differences-- real and imagined-- separate the two communities. Boykin points to evidence of African and precolonial same-sex behavior, as well as figures l

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• Verlag: Anchor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0385479824
• ISBN 13: 9780385479820
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272