This volume examines key works of the African-American civil rights debate past and present. It also explores issues of gender equality and sexual orientation integral to civil rights studies.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Dedication.
About This Volume.
“Caught in an Inescapable Network of Mutuality”: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Orientation in American Civil Rights Literature.
Critical Contexts.
1: Free Speech and Racial Rhetoric: African-American Writers on Race in the United States.
2: Inadequate Conception of Human Complexity: Ellison Revises Elkins.
3: “Be Loyal to Yourselves”: Jim Crow Segregation, Black Cultural Nationalism, and US Cultural Memory in Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious.
4: Haunting America: Racial Identity and Otherness in Civic Society.
Critical Readings.
5: Unpacking Notions of Citizenship through James Baldwin's Another Country.
6: “On Revolution and Equilibrium”: Barbara Deming's Secular Nonviolence.
7: “[B]ut yesterday morning came the worst news”: Margaret Walker Alexander's Prophets for a New Day.
8: The Mothers' Tragedy: Loss of a Child in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks, Dudley Randall, and Michael Harper.
9: Alice Walker and Claudia Rankine: Reclaiming the Ocularity of the Self.
10: “Crooning [the] Lullabies [of] Ghosts”: Reclamation and Voices of Witness as Sociopolitical Protest in the Short Fiction of Alice Walker.
11: The City and The Country: Queer Utopian Spaces in John Rechy's City of Night and Patricia Highsmith's Price of Salt.
12: “B(l)ack up on the Shelf: The Erasure of Black Queerness in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Why We Can't Wait”.
13: Writing Civil Rights after James Byrd, after Matthew Shepard.
14: “The Process of Becoming Nobody”: Reflections on E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class.
15: Toward a More Inclusive America: Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 Democratic National Convention Addresses.
