The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom
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The Truth That Never Hurts brings together for the first time more than two decades of literary criticism and political thought about gender, race, sexuality, power, and social change. As one of the first writers in the United States to claim Black feminism for Black women in the early seventies, Barbara Smith has done groundbreaking work in defining a Black women's literary tradition; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of Black and other women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race, class, sexuality, and gender.ReviewAs a black lesbian feminist activist and scholar, Smith is a highly respected voice of conscience who speaks discomforting but necessary truths about the interlocking nature of oppressions within American culture and institutions. These landmark essays . . . show Smith challenging academic, political, and community organizations to expand their missions in order to include persons who have been perennially at the margins of our society. . . . Recommended.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note on CitationsIToward a Black Feminist CriticismToward a Black Feminist Criticism3The Souls of Black Women22Sexual Politics and the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston27Naming the Unnameable: The Poetry of Pat Parker39The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s44We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice: A Tribute to James Baldwin75African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration81IIBetween a Rock and a Hard PlaceRacism and Women's Studies95The Tip of the Iceberg99The Rodney King Verdict102Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Reflections on the Hill-Thomas Hearings106Homophobia: Why Bring It Up?111The NEA Is the Least of It116Blacks and Gays: Healing the Great Divide124Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships between Black and Jewish Women132IIIWorking for Liberation and Having a Damn Good TimeChicago Firsthand: A Distortion of Reality157Working for Liberation and Having a Damn Good Time161Doing It from Scratch: The Challenge of Black Lesbian Organizing167Where's the Revolution?178Where's the Revolution? Part II185IVA RoseA Rose191Organizations to Contact211Selected Bibliography215
