Black Like Us

Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthology

Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and writers whom readers may be surprised to learn were "in the life," Black Like Us is the most comprehensive collection of fiction by African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual writers ever published. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Migration of the Depression era, from the postwar civil rights, feminist, and gay liberation movements, to the unabashedly complex sexual explorations of the present day, Black Like Us accomplishes a sweeping survey of 20th century literature.

Dwight A. McBride is chair of the Department of African American Studies and an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. His published essays are in the areas of race theory and black cultural studies. He is the author of Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (New York UP, 2001), a book-length study of abolitionist discourse and the problem of witnessing slavery in Britain and the United States. He is the editor of James Baldwin Now (New York UP, 1999). He also coedited a special issue of the journal Callaloo entitled “Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies” (winter 2000).

• Publisher: Cleis Press
  
• Publish Date: October 04, 2011
  
• Pages: 555
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Paperback
  
• EAN/UPC: 9781573447140
  
• Dimensions: 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.4 in T | 1.5 lb Wt
  
• BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction