Womanist forefathers : Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois / Gary L. Lemons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemons, Gary L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 221 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What role did African American men have in the early twentieth-century struggle for women's suffrage? How is gender significant to the historical and contemporary struggles for African American liberation? In Womanist Forefathers, Gary L. Lemons examines the memoirs and political writings on women by Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, positioning these radical proponents of female equality as "womanist forefathers" to later generations of gender progressive black men. Lemons argues that the writings of Douglass and Du Bois, which merge confessional narrative with social criticism, demonstrate the power of pro-womanist thinking in the vision of racial uplift both men advanced. Womanist Forefathers then traces the lineage between these early African American activists to contemporary pro-feminist black men, many of whom have similarly combined analyses of the personal with the political to envision a black male brotherhood founded on womanist principles, free from nationalism rooted in patriarchy, heterosexism, and homophobia.

Contents:

Theorizing a pro-woman(ist) politics of gender justice before, during and after the Black sexism debate

Black men writing ourselves into pro-woman(ist) being(s) in the name of the Black maternal

A recovered past most usable : documenting the history of Black male gender progressivism

Frederick Douglass's journey from slavery to womanist manhood : liberating the Black male self

W.E.B. Du Bois : the leading male feminist of his time and most passionate defender of Black women

Novel for the darker sisters : The quest of the silver fleece and W.E.B. Du Bois's vision of the (quint)essential Black woman(ist)

On the power of contemporary Black feminist profession

"Brother"hood called into question

A vision of pro-woman(ist) masculinity for a "newBlackMan(hood)"

Hands-on practice : everyday challenges of pro-woman(ist)/feminist fatherhood

This is what a (Black male) feminist looks like : time has brought about a change.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438427690

1438427697

9781441624062

1441624066