Left Out: A Political Journey
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465017444 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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All of these essays, articles, and reviews, first published in such periodicals as The Nation, the New York Times, and The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, have been amended for this publication and divided into pertinent categories. For the past thirty-five years, activist and historian Martin Duberman has been witness to our country’s tumultuous confrontations with a formidable array of shifting issues - equality for people of color, the feminist movement, the anti-war movement, the gay/lesbian and AIDS political formations. Duberman has written a special introduction, as well as introductory essays to each section of the book.. This selection of his previously published and revised work
Thought provoking and enjoyable. Rob Sommo Martin Duberman writes with a combination of persuasive scholarly research and a strong sense of personal passion. This book is a thoughtful collection of his essays exploring so many different and important issues. What makes this book so interesting for me is the fact that these essays were writ. "A great book written by a great man." according to Bob Berkowitz. For more years than Rush Limbaugh has been alive, Martin Duberman has been writing about the cause of social justice for everyone. In "Left Out", he superbly shares his essays and thoughts over the last A great book written by a great man. For more years than Rush Limbaugh has been alive, Martin Duberman has been writing about the cause of social justice for everyone. In "Left Out", he superbly shares his essays and thoughts over the last 35 years. Whether he's battling the neos over freedom for Gays and civil rights for blacks, whe. 5 years. Whether he's battling the neos over freedom for Gays and civil rights for blacks, whe. Delete that review To the reader from NYC, Oct. 20th. Did you read the book? At all? The review you gave tells us nothing of the books content and just seems like a bitter, big ego attack on the author. You seem envious. I urge people to go to the bookstore and read a few chapters and you'll see what and extraordina
Radical scholar and activist Martin Duberman assembles a representative cross section of his writings in Left Out, an anthology that includes essays on racial politics and gay and lesbian history, as well as critiques of U.S. . Among the highlights in Left Out are "The 'Father' of the Homophile Movement," a long biographical essay about Donald Webster Cory, also known as Edward Sagarin (who wrote a pioneering account of homosexual life in the 1950s but later became a staunch critic of the movement for acceptance of gays), and "Kinsey's Urethra," a caustic pan of a heavily moralistic biography of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Whether he's discussing his experiences working on his acclaimed biography of Paul Robeson or the early years of the National Gay Task Force, Duberman writes with visible passion--giving free rein to his humor and keeping his occasional fury in check. foreign policy, campus radicalism, and several other topics