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.

Feminist theory--United States.

Feminist theory.

Male feminists--United States.

Male feminists.

African American feminists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 244 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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

Introduction: when the teacher moves from silence to voice : "talking back" to patriarchy and white supremacy

Pt. 1. Formulating a pedagogy of black feminist antiracism

Ch. 1. Toward a profession of feminism

Ch. 2. A calling of the heart and spirit : becoming a feminist professor : the proof is in the pedagogy

Pt. 2. From the margin to the center of black feminist male self-recovery

Ch. 3. Learning to love the little black boy in me : breaking family silences, ending shame

Ch. 4. White like whom? : racially integrated schooling, curse or blessing?

Ch. 5. "There’s a nigger in the closet!" : narrative encounters with white supremacy

Pt. 3. From theory to practice : classroom case studies

Ch. 6. Complicating white identity in the classroom : enter color, gender, sexuality, and class difference(s)

Ch. 7. When white students write about being white in a class called "Womanist thought"

Ch. 8. Screening race and the fear of blackness in a (majority-)white classroom

Ch. 9. On teaching Audre Lorde and Marlon Riggs : ten thousand ways of seeing blackness

A pro-wo(man)ist postscript : return to the margin of masculinity : teaching and loving outside the boundary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-4356-5866-3