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Freedom In This Village
''Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present'' is a 2004 anthology edited by E. Lynn Harris. The book charts the development of black gay male literature from 1979 to the present. The book won the Lambda Literary Award for the Anthologies category at the 2006 Lambda Literary Awards. Numerous writings from black gay men are included, from authors such as James Baldwin, Samuel R. Delany, Reginald Shepherd, Daniel Garrett, Essex Hemphill, Melvin Dixon, Marlon Riggs, Gary Fisher, Carl Phillips, Robert Reid-Pharr, Keith Boykin, Thomas Glave, Marvin K. White and John Keene. Contents *James Baldwin, "from ''Just Above My Head''" *Sidney Brinkley, "Passion" *Salih Michael Fisher, "Assumption about the Harlem Brown Baby" *Joseph Beam, "Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart" *Samuel R. Delany, "from ''Flight from Nevèrÿon''" *Isaac Jackson, "Michael Stewart is Dead" *Reginald Shepherd, "On Not Being White" *Jerry Thompson, "19: A Poem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black People
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid to dark brown complexion. Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations. It is most commonly used for people of sub-Saharan African ancestry and the indigenous peoples of Oceania, though it has been applied in many contexts to other groups, and is no indicator of any close ancestral relationship whatsoever. Indigenous African societies do not use the term ''black'' as a racial identity outside of influences brought by Western cultures. The term "black" may or may not be capitalized. The ''AP Stylebook'' changed its guide to capitalize the "b" in ''black'' in 2020. The '' ASA Style Guide'' says that the "b" should not be capitali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Keene (writer)
John R. Keene Jr. (born 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. His 2022 poetry collection, ''Punks: New and Selected Poems,'' received the National Book Award for Poetry''.'' Biography John Keene was born and raised in the city of St. Louis, and in Webster Groves, in St. Louis County. Raised Catholic, attended parochial schools, and graduated from the Saint Louis Priory School. He has an A.B. from Harvard College, where he was a member of the Harvard Black Community and Student Theater (C.A.S.T.) and served as co-Circulation Manager and on the Art Board of the Harvard Advocate. He received an M.F.A. from New York University, where he was a New York Times Foundation Fellow. He was a longtime member of the Dark Room Collective, an organization that from 1988 to 1998 celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of color, and also is a Graduate Fellow of Cave Canem. Formerly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Non-fiction Books
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s LGBTQ Literature
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Culture And Sexual Orientation
Homophobia in ethnic minority communities is any negative prejudice or form of discrimination in ethnic minority communities worldwide towards people who identify as–or are perceived as being–lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), known as homophobia. This may be expressed as antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred, irrational fear, and is sometimes related to religious beliefs.* *"European Parliament resolution on homophobia in Europe", Texts adopted Wednesday, 18 January 2006 – Strasbourg Final edition- "Homophobia in Europe" at "A" point * * While religion can have a positive function in many LGB Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities, it can also play a role in supporting homophobia.Blakey, H, Pearce, J and Chesters, G (2006''Minorities within minorities: Beneath the surface of South Asian participation'', Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York. Many LGBT ethnic minority persons rely on members of their ethnic group for support on racial matters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hannaham
James Hannaham (born 1968) is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His novel ''Delicious Foods'' (2015), which deals with human trafficking, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was named one of ''Publishers Weekly''s top ten books of the year. ''The New York Times'' called it an “ambitious, sweeping novel of American captivity and exploitation.” He studied art at Yale University and in 1992 began working in the art department of ''The Village Voice'' as well as writing for the paper. Later he studied creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His debut novel, ''God Says No'' (2009)'','' was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He has published fiction in One Story, Fence, StoryQuarterly, and BOMB. He reviews theater and art for 4Columns. He cofounded the New York City–based performance group Elevator Repair Service and worked with them 1992–2002. His text-based artworks often satirize the theoretical jar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assotto Saint
Assotto Saint (October 2, 1957 - June 29, 1994) was a Haitian-born American poet, publisher and performance artist, who was a key figure in LGBT and African-American art and literary culture of the 1980s and early 1990s.Luca Prono"Saint, Assotto (1957-1994)". glbtq.com, January 23, 2011. Background Saint was born in Les Cayes, Haiti, on October 2, 1957, as Yves François Lubin.Erin Durban-Albrecht, ''The Legacy of Assotto Saint: Tracing Transnational History from the Gay Haitian Diaspora''. ''Journal of Haitian Studies'', Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2013. pp. 235-256. 10.1353/jhs.2013.0013. He moved to New York City in 1970, enrolling briefly in a pre-med program at Queens College, but soon dropped out to pursue his artistic interests. He adopted the name Assotto Saint around this time, choosing Assotto for a ceremonial drum used in Haitian Vodou rituals and Saint for Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture. Artistic career His early interest in the performative and aest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Julien
Sir Isaac Julien (born 21 February 1960Annette Kuhn"Julien, Isaac (1960–)" BFI Screen Online.) is a British installation artist, filmmaker, and distinguished professor of the arts at UC Santa Cruz. Early life Julien was born in the East End of London, one of the five children of his parents, who had migrated to Britain from St Lucia. He graduated in 1985 from Saint Martin's School of Art, where he studied painting and fine art film. He co-founded Sankofa Film and Video Collective in 1983, and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1991. Education In 1980, Julien organised the Sankofa Film and Video Collective with Martina Attille, Maureen Blackwood, Nadine Marsh-Edwards, and Robert Crusz in response to the social unrest in Britain. Sankofa was "dedicated to developing an independent black film culture in the areas of production, exhibition and audience". He received a BA in fine-art film from Central Saint Martins School of Art, London (1984), where he worked alongside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Duplechan
Larry Duplechan (born December 30, 1956, in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist. He is best known for his novels ''Blackbird'', Blackbird (2014 film), adapted in 2014 by Patrik-Ian Polk as a film starring Mo'Nique and Isaiah Washington, and ''Got 'til It's Gone'', which won an award in the Gay Romance category at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation, February 18, 2010. Background Duplechan was born on December 30, 1956, in Los Angeles, California.Claude J. SummersLarry Duplechan . glbtq.com, 2011. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan (March 12, 1963 – August 28, 2020) was an American author. Born in Brooklyn, New York, at six weeks old Kenan moved to Duplin County, North Carolina, a small rural community, where he lived with his grandparents in a town named Wallace. Many of Kenan's novels are set around the area of his home in North Carolina. The focus of much of Kenan's work centers around what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Some of Kenan's most notable works include the collection of short stories ''Let the Dead Bury Their Dead'', named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book in 1992, ''A Visitation of Spirits'', and ''The Fire This Time''. Kenan was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize. Biography Early life Randall Kenan was born in Brooklyn, New York, but at only six weeks old he moved to a small town named Wallace, where he lived with his grandparents. Kenan's grandparents ran a dry-cleaning business, and most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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