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9. “You’reTurning Me On”

The Boxer, the Beauty Queen, and the Rituals of Gender
  • Michael Awkward
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© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vi
  3. Foreword x
  4. Acknowledgments xiv
  5. Introduction 1
  6. PART I: THE MILLION MAN MARCH
  7. 1. To March or Not to March:Two Op-eds 19
  8. 2. “Claiming” and “Speaking” Who We Are 28
  9. 3. Buck Passing 46
  10. 4. My Two Mothers, America, and the Million Man March 54
  11. 5. Sadomasochism and the Colorline 68
  12. 6. “Marchin’ On” 85
  13. 7. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man 99
  14. PART II: ENGENDERING BLACK RACIAL VICTIMHOOD
  15. 8. Pull Together as the Community 117
  16. 9. “You’reTurning Me On” 128
  17. 10. The Social Construction of a Rape Victim 147
  18. 11. The Construction of O. J. Simpson as a Racial Victim 159
  19. 12. Missing in Action 194
  20. 13. The Message of the Verdict 212
  21. 14. The Sexual Diversion 237
  22. PART III: ANTIRACIST DISCOURSE OUTED
  23. 15. Can the Queen Speak? 249
  24. 16. Signifying on the Black Church 276
  25. 17. Black Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights 283
  26. 18. My Gay Problem,Your Black Problem 303
  27. 19. Black Macho Revisited 306
  28. 20. On Eldridge Cleaver 312
  29. 21. Baraka’s Dilemma 317
  30. 22. AIDS in Blackface 324
  31. 23. Fixing the Faggot 338
  32. 24. The Elixir of Dennis Rodman 347
  33. PART IV: BLACK MALE FEMINISM, SEXISM, OR PATERNALISM?
  34. 25. A Black Man’s Place in Black Feminist Criticism 359
  35. 26. The Challenge and Possibility for Black Males to Embrace Feminism 383
  36. 27. The Women’s Liberation and the Gay Liberation Movements 387
  37. 28. Some African American Males’ Perspectives on the Black Woman 390
  38. 29. Silent Acquiescence 408
  39. 30. “You Cain’t Trus’ It” 414
  40. Epilogue 417
  41. Contributors 449
  42. Permissions 459
  43. Index 461
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