Black male outsider : teaching as a pro-feminist man : a memoir / Gary L. Lemons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemons, Gary L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--United States.

Women's studies.

Male feminists.

United States.

Feminist theory--United States.

Feminist theory.

Male feminists--United States.

African American feminists.

Physical Description:

xxii, 244 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

This fascinating book traces the development of the author's consciousness as a black male pro-feminist professor. Gary L. Lemons explores the meaning of black male feminism by examining his experiences at the New York City college where he taught for more than a decade-a small, private, liberal arts college where the majority of the students were white and female. Through a series of classroom case studies, he presents the transformative power of memoir writing as a strategic tool for enabling students to understand the critical relationship between the personal and the political. From the insightful inclusion of his own personal narratives about his childhood experience of domestic violence, to stories about being a student and teacher in majority white classrooms for most of his life, Lemons takes the reader on a provocative journey about what it means to be black, male, and pro-feminist.

Contents:

Preface: Writing in the Dark, Writing from the Inside Out xv

Introduction: When the Teacher Moves from Silence to Voice: "Talking Back" to Patriarchy and White Supremacy 1

Part 1 Formulating a Pedagogy of Black Feminist Antiracism

Chapter 1 Toward a Profession of Feminism 11

Chapter 2 A Calling of the Heart and Spirit: Becoming a Feminist Professor; The Proof Is in the Pedagogy 29

Part 2 From the Margin to the Center of Black Feminist Male Self-Recovery

Chapter 3 Learning to Love the Little Black Boy in Me: Breaking Family Silences, Ending Shame 57

Chapter 4 White Like Whom? Racially Integrated Schooling, Curse or Blessing? 79

Chapter 5 "There's a Nigger in the Closet!": Narrative Encounters with White Supremacy 103

Part 3 From Theory to Practice: Classroom Case Studies

Chapter 6 Complicating White Identity in the Classroom: Enter Color, Gender, Sexuality, and Class Difference(s) 123

Chapter 7 When White Students Write about Being White in a Class Called "Womanist Thought" 151

Chapter 8 Screening Race and the Fear of Blackness in a (Majority-) White Classroom 171

Chapter 9 On Teaching Audre Lorde and Marlon Riggs: Ten Thousand Ways of Seeing Blackness 191

A Pro-Wo(man)ist Postscript: Return to the Margin of Masculinity: Teaching and Loving outside the Boundary 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.

ISBN:

9780791473016

0791473015

9780791473023

0791473023

OCLC:

85898955