| Author | Smith, Barbara, 1946-
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| Title | The truth that never hurts : writings on race, gender, and freedom / Barbara Smith.
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| Published | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998.
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| Description | xvi, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8135-2573-X (alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217).
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| Formatted Note | Contents: 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.
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| Subjects | African American lesbians.
African American women -- Civil rights.
African American women authors.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Lesbian feminism -- United States.
Racism -- United States.
Smith, Barbara, 1946-
United States -- Race relations.
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| LC Card Number | 98-18668 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 185.86 S643
mq205497: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 132676] |
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