Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
A collection of Bayard Rustin's writings and related materials that bridges civil-rights history and gay liberation. It is more than an edited volume: it lets readers encounter the movement through Rustin's own words.
Work Information
A black gay activist at the center of the civil-rights movement, told in his own words.
This collected volume gathers Bayard Rustin's essays, speeches, and other writings, linking Black liberation with the history of same-sex desire. It is treated as an essential source for reassessing a major historical figure.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Cleis Pr
- Published
- 2003-07-01
- Pages
- 350 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781573441742
- ISBN-10
- 1573441740
- Price
- 49766 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Politics & Government/International & World Politics/Asian
The writings of the openly gay advisor to Martin Luther King cover five decades of important insights into Gandhi's influence on African-Americans, white supremacists in Congress, the anti-war movement, and the assassination of MLK. Original.
Devon Carbado is Professor of Law and African American Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is coeditor of Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction (Cleis), winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award and the Independent Publisher Award, and editor of Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (New York UP). Donald Weise is coeditor of Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction, as well as The Huey P. Newton Reader (Seven Stories). He is also editor of Gore Vidals Los Angeles Times bestseller Gore Vidal: Sexually SpeakingCollected Sex Writings (Cleis).
Reviews
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Bayard Rustin to me is a civil rights leader whose writing are still relevant -- especially at the intersection of African-American and Gay Liberation civil rights movements. And, his insights about other civil rights efforts -- such as the women's civil rights movement -- were quite enlightening. For anyone interested in learning lessons about past civil rights movements of minority community members -- especially for activists in more recent civil rights movements (such as the immigration and transgender civil rights movements) -- this is definitely worth the read.
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I had heard of Bayard Rustin as a "peripheral" organiser of the civil rights movement - and came to reading this thinking I would learn little but it is a powerful well written collection of his writings - I recommend it to anyone who is interested in Justice, Non-violence and civil rights.
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The writings of a great man - brilliant.
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Book was awesome. Great content👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿♥️✊🏾✊🏾♥️♥️
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This is probably the best book I've read all year. Rustin is so under-appreciated. Hopefully he will emerge as one of the most significant figures of the period. The horror of how he was treated by people seeking rights is sad, but I'm that much more grateful that he persevered.
Related Literary Awards
- Lambda Literary Awards Edition 16 (2004) ・Winner・Winner