He argues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Does Black Empowerment in the...
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He argues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Does Black Empowerment in the Twenty-First Century Look Like? -- 1 White Supremacy Under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World -- 2 Easier Said Than Done: Making Black Feminism Transformative for Black Men -- 3 All Joking Aside: Black Men, Sexual Assault, and Displaced Racial Angst in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- 4 Boys to Men: Getting Personal about Black Manhood, Sexuality, and Empowerment -- 5 Rejecting Goldilocks: The Crisis of Normative White Beauty for Black Girls -- 6 "Stop Making the Rest of Us Look Bad": How Class Matters in the Attacks against the Movie Precious -- Epilogue: So What Does It All Mean? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
