{"product_id":"traps-paperback","title":"Traps - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRudolph P. Byrd\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBeverly Guy Sheftall\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a valuable project. The editors are excellent, well-known scholars, and activists in the academy.\" --Darlene Clark Hine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"After looking carefully at Traps' selections, I have to confess that I'm both excited and satisfied by what Rudolph Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall have assembled here from the 19th century to the present. Educators genuinely need a text like this for opening their classroom to critical discussions on the well-worn subjects of race and gender.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Charles Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraps is the first anthology of writings by 19th- and 20th-century African American men on the overlapping categories of race, gender, and sexuality. The selections on gender in Sections I and II reveal what some may view as the unexpected commitment of African American men to feminism. Included here are critiques of the subordinate social, economic, and political position of black women. Sections III and IV analyze the taboos and myths in which black sexuality is enmeshed. These essays also stress the importance of rejecting homophobia and the need to contest the predominance of a heterosexual paradigm. Monolithic constructions of gender and sexuality, reinforced by sexism and historically sanctioned homophobia, are the \"traps\" that give this book its focus and its title.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudolph P. Byrd (1953-2011) was Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Program of African American Studies at Emory University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eJean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eI Call Myself an Artist: Writings by and about Charles Johnson.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeverly Guy-Sheftall is founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies. Her previous publications include \u003ci\u003eWords of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.26 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 09, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736777363519,"sku":"9780253214485","price":50.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3c24eafa09a49add563ea68b63de0054_4fe6e18e-f610-4598-9426-530d5e8800b4.webp?v=1765147829","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/traps-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}