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Drifting Toward Love
Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York |
Beacon Press, January 2008
Countless migratory kids populate the outskirts of New York’s gay wonderland. These young people--mostly black and Latino, often homeless--are what social service providers call “at-risk” youth. They top the list for a disturbing array of social ills, from violence to suicide to HIV. But the question must be asked, what drives all this risk? Drifting Toward Love explores the question by taking a step back from it to follow a handful of young men on their search for belonging.
DriftingTowardLove.org
Beacon Publishing
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The African American Experience:
Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories |
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, January 2009, 2nd edition (1st edition, 2001)
A collection of over 250 documents providing contemporary, firsthand witness to black America’s history, from its first day through the remarkable 2008 presidential elections. I introduce each item with a brief discussion of its historical context.
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| Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces |
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2002
Throughout American history, human rights activists have tried to exploit the military’s unrelenting manpower needs, positioning fights for equality within the instituion as wedges to pry open society at-large. Soldiers of Freedom chronicles that saga, while presenting hundreds of compelling images of black servicemembers culled from The National Archives.
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Collections
Equanimity under duress
An essay in Bruce Shenitz’s collection The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers. Marlow and Company, 2002
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To be poor and transgender
An article in Estelle Disch’s Restrconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, third edition. McGraw Hill, 2003 [Reprinted from The Progressive magazine]
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Additional material
High-res author photo
Extended biography
Affiliated organizations
Beacon Press
Black AIDS Institute
International Reporting
Project
The Media Consortium
Beautiful people
Andre Banks
A Perfect Bag
Barry Yeoman
Bill Roundy
Blabbeando
Dan Fishback
Debbie Nathan
Emanual Xavier
frank leon roberts
Hilary Beard
Jasmyne Cannick
Jedd Flanscha
Journey Into Light
Keith Boykin
Kenyon Farrow
Patrick Riley
Rod 2.0
Samiya Bashir
Steven G. Fullwood
Tim M. West
Yield Media
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