Black Like Us - 2nd Edition by Devon Carbado & Dwight McBride (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

This rich anthology will take your breath away. --The Advocate

Skillfully unfolds the black queer voice. --Out Magazine

This enormously powerful and expansive book covers the eras from 1900 to 2000 in dozens of entries that showcase writers who are household names, and others who aren't, as America experienced sea changes around gender, race, and sexual orientation. --The Urban News

Black Like Us unlocks the closet of black lesbian, gay, and bisexual writing. --Keith Boykin, author of One More River to Cross

A phenomenal pioneering anthology. --Ann Allen Shockley, author of Loving Her

Black Like Us thoughtfully shapes and lovingly nurtures a literary tradition that has been marginalized for too long. An absorbing and enlightening encounter with compelling American literature. --John D'Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

A vital achievement. -- George Chauncey, author of Gay New York

An exceptionally fine read and a rich resource for all of us. --Robert L. Allen, co-editor of Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America

Black Like Us refuses to separate the histories and imaginations of Black America and Queer America. In so doing, it becomes a model for a more insightful and useful cultural discussion, one that has importance for all of American culture. --Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, author of A Restricted Country and A Fragile Union

-- "Reviews"

About the Author

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).