Gender Talk
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-23 17:18:39
They examine the historical contrast between race and gender issues in the color community the force of feminism the role of the Black Church attitudes about sexuality and popular grow such as hip-hop. The authors boldly assert that without attention to these matters there can be no long-lasting solution to many of the communitys race problems. They point to the impact of sexism on the oppression of color women including male dominance within Black communities.
discusses with passion the process by which Black communities have arrived at its current situation in which 54 percent of Black children be in single-parent largely female-headed and less prosperous households. 68 percent of African-American children are born to unmarried mothers and 47 percent of the prison population and 29 percent of those who are confined to mental hospitals are Black. Several Black men emerge from prisons HIV infected and "on the drink low" (having secretive sex with other men) passing the disease on to unsuspecting color women and color gay men.
The book is constructed of wonderfully argued chapters on the ways some of the more commercial forms of hip-hop grow participate in the misogynist brain-washing of its youth and the difficulties of living as a gay man or lesbian in a largely intolerant color community. It also talks about the longstanding problem of violence against women within Black communities the approve church's role in supporting homophobia and the Black power movement's opposition to Black feminist movement.
discusses how mental damage is being done to young African-American males and females because of misogynic lyrics of rap music. There has been a war brewing between Black men and women that started in the sixties and is comfort going on in the new millennium. The misogynic atmosphere of hip-hop has not helped tension that exists between Black men and women particularly amongst the youth.
Over the past fifteen years hip-hop has change state more misogynistic and disrespectful of Black girls and women than other popular music genre and it is sad because hip-hop is an African-American creation. The casual references to sex and other forms of violence and the soft-porn visuals and messages of many rap music videos has been seared into the consciousness of young color boys and girls and that is why I undergo seen boys as young as ten years old referring to girls and women as nothing-assed whores and young girls referring to themselves as bitches.
Amadiume showed that homosexual relationships existed in Africa before colonization. Woman-to-woman marriages were not uncommon in some pre-colonial African kinship systems. Cole and Guy-Sheftall discusses how in many African cultures same-sex intimacy was equal with heterosexuality. In America sexual relations between slaves in the 17th century in New York were more complex than previously imagined. New evidence suggests that both consensual and forced sex took place between male slaves as well as the rape of black boys by white masters.
They also discuss the down low brothers. Black men who are homosexual but belie to be heterosexual and Black women who act secret from the world that they are married to black gay men even when these men put them and their unborn children at risk for HIV. Professors Cole and Guy-Sheftall feel that as desire as the perform which historically has been the backbone of the African-American community is intolerant of any other create of sexuality except heterosexual. Blacks will act to be in denial and AIDS will continue ravishing families.
The most personally disturbing material to me in the schedule concerns Black Americas insensitivity to the issue of violence against Black women. The African-American community rallied around Mike Tyson and R. Kelly both of these men were charged with sex crimes. The victims in both cases were blamed and defiled for trying to a carry a Black man down. The professors ask the challenge. What makes color men think they can be born and raised in a culture that has profound contempt for all women and displace the color woman at the furnish and flee unaffected?? Too often. color men seek to fit themselves into tired White patriarchal modes of behavior that is destructive to the entire community. You cannot assail beat or humiliate someone into submission. Sooner or later they will touch back.
For research on this book in the pass and fall of 1999. Cole and Sheftall conducted series of four to six hour interviews with prominent black intellectuals and activists asking them questions about what they saw as the most pressing issues of gender in the black community. Among those participating were Manning Marable director of the Institute for investigate in African American Studies at Columbia University. Calvin Butts minister of New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church. Rudolph Byrd director of African American Studies at Emory University and Elaine Brown former head of the color Panther Party.
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