Black Like Us

by Devon Carbado

  ———, Babel-17 (Ace, 1966).

  ———, Empire Star (Ace, 1966).

  ———, The Einstein Intersection (Ace, 1967).

  ———, Nova (Ace, 1968).

  ———, The Fall of the Towers (Ace, 1970).

  ———,The Tides of Lust (Lancer, 1973); also published as Equinox.

  ———, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975).

  ———, Triton (Bantam, 1976).

  ———, Tales of Nevèryon (Bantam, 1979).

  ———, Nevèryon (Bantam, 1983).

  ———, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Bantam, 1984).

  ———, Flight from Nevèryon (Bantam, 1985).

  ———, The Bridge of Lost Desire (Arbor, 1987).

  ———, They Fly at Ciron (Incunabul, 1993).

  ———, The Mad Man (Kasak, 1994).

  ———, Hogg (Black Ice, 1995).

  ———, Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York City (Masquerade, 1999).

  Dodson, Owen, Boy at the Window (Farrar, 1951).

  ———, Come Home Early Child (Popular Library, 1977).

  Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (Random, 1952).

  Himes, Chester, Cast the First Stone (McGraw, 1952).

  Jones, Gayl, Corregidora (Random, 1975).

  Lorde, Audre, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing, 1982).

  Maddy, Yulisa Amadu, No Past, No Present, No Future (Heinemann, 1973). Morrison, Toni, Sula (Knopf, 1973).

  Shockley, Ann Allen, Loving Her (Avon, 1974).

  ———, Say Jesus and Come to Me (Avon, 1982).

  Slim, Iceberg, Mama Black Widow (Holloway, 1970).

  Walker, Alice, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (Harcourt, 1970).

  ———, Meridian (Harcourt, 1976).

  ———, The Color Purple (Harcourt, 1982).

  ———, The Temple of My Familiar (Harcourt, 1989).

  ———, Possessing the Secret of Joy (Harcourt, 1992).

  ———, By the Light of My Father’s Smile (Random, 1998).

  Young Adult Novels and Children’s Books

  Baldwin, James, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (Dial, 1977). DeVeaux, Alexis, Na-ni (Harper, 1973).

  ———, Spirits in the Street (Doubleday, 1973).

  Guy, Rosa, Bird at My Window (Lippincott, 1966).

  ———, The Friends (Holt, 1974).

  ———, Ruby: A Novel (Viking, 1976).

  ———, Edith Jackson (Viking, 1978).

  ———, The Disappearance (Delacorte, 1979).

  ———, Mirror of Her Own (Delacorte, 1981).

  ———, A Measure of Time (Holt, 1983).

  ———, My Love, My Love: or, The Pleasant Girl (Holt, 1985).

  ———, Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog (Delacorte, 1985).

  ———, And I Heard a Bird Sing (Delacorte, 1986).

  ———, The Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III (Delacorte, 1989).

  Jordan, June, Who Look At Me? (Crowell, 1969).

  ———, His Own Where (Crowell, 1971).

  ———, Fannie Lou Hamer (Harper, 1972).

  ———, New Life: New Room (Harper, 1975).

  McKissick, Pat, and Frederick L. McKissick, Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (Holiday, 1998).

  Walker, Alice, Langston Hughes: American Poet (Crowell, 1974).

  ———, To Hell with Dying (Harcourt, 1988).

  ———, Finding the Green Stone (Harcourt, 1991).

  NONFICTION

  Autobiography, Biography, Letters, and Memoir

  Ailey, Alvin, and Peter Bailey, Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey (Birch Lane Press, 1995).

  Anderson, Jervis, Bayard Rustin: Troubles I’ve Seen (Harper, 1997).

  Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Random, 1970).

  Brown, Elaine, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story (Pantheon, 1992).

  Brownmiller, Susan, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Dial, 1999).

  Chisholm, Shirley, The Good Fight (Harper, 1973).

  Davis, Angela Y., Angela Davis: An Autobiography (Random, 1974).

  ———, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Pantheon, 1998).

  Delany, Samuel R., Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love (Bantam, 1979).

  ———, The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction in the East Village, 1957– 1965 (Arbor, 1988).

  ———, 1984: Selected Letters (Voyant, 2000).

  DeVeaux, Alexis, Audre Lorde (Random, 1997).

  Grant, Joanne, Ella Baker: Freedom Bound (Wiley, 1998).

  Hadju, David, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (Farrar, 1996).

  Hatch, James V., Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson (U of Illinois P, 1995).

  Heath, Gordon, Deep Are the Roots: Memoirs of a Black Expatriate (U of Massachusetts P, 1992).

  Jay, Karla, Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation (Basic, 1999).

  Jordan, June, Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood (Basic, 2000).

  Leeming, David, James Baldwin: A Biography (Knopf, 1994).

  Levine, Daniel, Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement (Rutgers UP, 2000).

  Lorde, Audre, The Cancer Journals (Spinsters Ink, 1980).

  Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (Tennessee UP, 1987).

  Walker, Alice, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult: A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art and the Making of the Film, The Color Purple, Ten Years Later (Scribner, 1996). ———, Anything We Loved Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism (Random, 1997).

  History and Reference

  Baldwin, James, Nothing Personal, with photographs by Richard Avedon (Atheneum, 1964).

  Baldwin, James, and Margaret Mead, A Rap on Race (Lippincott, 1971).

  Baldwin, James, and Nikki Giovanni, A Dialogue (Lippincott, 1973).

  Banks, Erma D., and Keith Byerman, Alice Walker: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1989).

  Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Linda Gordon, eds., Dear Sister: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement (Basic, 2000).

  Black, Allida M., ed., Modern American Queer History (Temple UP, 2001).

  Blasius, Mark, and Shane Phelan, eds., We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics (Routledge, 1997).

  Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Harvard UP, 1981).

  Clendinen, Dudley, and Adam Nagourney, Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America (Simon, 1999).

  Crenshaw, Kimberlé, Neil Gotanda, Gary Pellar, and Kendall Thomas, eds., Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (New Press, 1995).

  Dandridge, Rita B., Ann Allen Shockley: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Greenwood, 1987).

  Davis, Angela Y., Women, Race, and Class (Random, 1981).

  ———, Women, Culture, and Politics (Random, 1989).

  Delany, Samuel R., Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (New York UP, 1999).

  D’Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Community in the United States, 1940–1970 (U of Chicago P, 1983).

  Duberman, Martin, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (New American Library, 1989).

  Duberman, Martin, Stonewall (Dutton, 1993).

  Evans, Mari, ed., Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation (Doubleday, 1984); includes Audre Lorde and Alice Walker.

  Faderman, Lillian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth- Century America (Columbia UP, 1991).

  Fouts, John, and Maura Tantillo, eds., American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race Since the Civil War (U of Chicago P, 1993).

  Garrow, David, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Souther
n Christian Leadership Conference (Morrow, 1986).

  Gates, Henry Louis, and Anthony Appiah, eds., Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives (Amistad, 1993).

  Giddings, Paula, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (Morrow, 1984).

  Hansberry, Lorraine, The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality (Simon, 1964).

  Hernton, Calvin, Sex and Racism in America (Grove, 1965).

  Hine, Darlene Clark, Rosalyn Terborg-Penne, and Elsa B. Brown, eds., Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson, 1993).

  Hine, Darlene Clark, and Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (Broadway, 1998).

  Hull, Gloria T., Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana UP, 1987).

  Hull, Akasha Gloria, Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women (Inner Traditions, 2001); includes Alice Walker.

  Katz, Jonathan, ed., Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (Harper, 1976).

  Lerna, Gerda, ed., Black Women in White America: A Documentary History (Random, 1972).

  Lorde, Audre, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (Crossing, 1978).

  ———, I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities (Kitchen Table: Women of Color, 1985).

  ———, Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices (Kitchen Table: Women of Color, 1991).

  Loughery, John, The Other Side of Silence: Men’s Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth Century History (Holt, 1998).

  Mankiller, Wilma, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, and Gloria Steinem, eds., The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History (Houghton, 1998).

  McBride, Dwight A., ed., James Baldwin Now (New York UP, 1999).

  Miller, Neil, Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present (Vintage, 1995).

  Millet, Kate, Sexual Politics (Doubleday, 1970).

  Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed., Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color (Harrington, 1994).

  Olson, Lynne, Freedom’s Daughter: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 (Scribner, 2001).

  Peplow, Michael W., and Robert S. Bravard, eds., Samuel R. Delany: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1962–1979 (Hall, 1980).

  Pollack, Sandra, and Denise D. Knight, Contemporary Lesbian Writers in the United States: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1993).

  Roberts, J. R., Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography (Naiad, 1981).

  Robnett, Belinda, How Long? How Long?: African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights (Oxford UP, 1997).

  Rosen, Ruth, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (Viking, 2000).

  Rustin, Bayard, Strategies for Freedom: The Changing Patterns of Black Protest (Columbia UP, 1976).

  Smith, Barbara, Elly Bulkin, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (Long Haul, 1984).

  Summers, Claude J., ed., The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader’s Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present (Holt, 1995).

  Teal, Donn, The Gay Militants (Stein, 1971).

  Vaid, Urvashi, Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Anchor, 1995).

  Walker, Alice, with Pratibha Parmar, Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Binding of Women (Harcourt, 1993).

  ———, Banned (Aunt Lute, 1996).

  ———, Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (Seven Stories, 2001).

  Wallace, Michelle, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Dial, 1979).

  Woods, Gregory, A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (Yale UP, 1998).

  POETRY

  Arobateau, Red Jordan, The Collected Poems of Red Jordan Arobateau (Red Jordan Press, 1996).

  Baldwin, James, Jimmy’s Blues: Selected Poems (St. Martin’s, 1985).

  ———, Gypsies and Other Poems (Gehenna/Eremite, 1989).

  Bogus, SDiane, I’m Off to See the Goddamn Wizard, Alright! (Woman in the Moon, 1971).

  ———, Woman in the Moon (Soap Box, 1977).

  ———, Her Poems: An Annaversaric Chronology (Woman in the Moon, 1979).

  ———, Sapphire’s Sampler (Woman in the Moon, 1982).

  ———, Dyke Hands and Sutras: Erotic Lyric (Woman in the Moon, 1988).

  ———, The Chant of the Women of the Magdalene and the Magdalene Poems (Woman in the Moon, 1990). ———, For the Love of Men: Shikata Gai Nai (Woman in the Moon, 1991).

  Byrd, Stephanie, 25 Years of Malcontent (Good Gay Poets, 1976).

  Carpenter, Pandoura, Deal with It! (She Wolf, 1979).

  Clarke, Cheryl, Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (Kitchen Table: Women of Color, 1983).

  ———, Living as a Lesbian (Firebrand, 1986).

  ———, Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry (Firebrand, 1989).

  ———, Experimental Love (Firebrand, 1993).

  Dodson, Owen, Powerful Long Ladder (Farrar, 1946).

  ———, The Confession Stone (Breman, 1970).

  Dodson, Owen, with Camille Billops and James Van Der Zee, The Harlem Book of the Dead (Morgan, 1978).

  Gibbs, Joan, Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Third, 1979).

  Gomillion, E. Sharon, Forty Acres and a Mule (Diana, 1973).

  Hopkins, Lea, I’m Not Crazy, Just Different (self-published, 1977).

  ———, Womyn I Have Known You (self-published, 1978).

  Hull, Gloria T., Healing Heart: Poems 1973–1988 (Kitchen Table, 1989).

  Jemima Writer’s Collective, eds., Jemima from the Heart (Jemima, 1977).

  Jordan, June, Some Changes (Dutton, 1971).

  ———, New Days: Poems of Exile and Return (Emerson Hall, 1973).

  ———, Things That I Do in the Dark: Selected Poems (Random, 1977).

  ———, Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems (Thunder’s Mouth, 1989).

  ———, Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991–1997 (Doubleday, 1997).

  Lorde, Audre, The First Cities (Poets, 1968).

  ———, Cables to Rage (Broadside, 1970).

  ———, From a Land Where Other People Live (Broadside, 1973).

  ———, The New York Head Shop and Museum (Broadside, 1974).

  ———, Between Our Selves (Eidolon, 1976).

  ———, Coal (Norton, 1976).

  ———, The Black Unicorn (Norton, 1978).

  ———, Chosen Poems: Old and New (Norton, 1982).

  ———, Our Dead Behind Us (Norton, 1986).

  ———, Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (Norton, 1992). ———, The Marvelous Arithmetic of Distance: Poems, 1987–1992 (Norton, 1993).

  Parker, Pat, Child of Myself (Women’s Press Collective, 1972).

  ———, Pit Stop: Words (Women’s Press Collective, 1974).

  ———, Movement in Black: Collected Poetry of Pat Parker, 1961–1978 (Diana, 1978). ———, Womanslaughter (Diana, 1978).

  ———, Jonestown and Other Madness (Firebrand, 1985).

  Walker, Alice, Once: Poems (Harcourt, 1968).

  ———, Five Poems (Broadside, 1972).

  ———, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (Harcourt, 1973).

  ———, Goodnight, I’ll See You in the Morning (Dial, 1979).

  ———, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (Harcourt, 1984).

  1980–2000: COMING OUT BLACK, LIKE US

  ANTHOLOGIES

  Multiauthor Collections

  Anzaldua, Gloria, and Cherrie Moraga, eds., This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Persephone, 1981).

  Austin, Doris Jean, ed., Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (Penguin, 1996); includes Steven Corbin.

  Bauer, Marion Dane, ed., Am I Blue?: Comin
g Out from the Silences (Harper, 1994); includes Jacqueline Woodson.

  Beam, Joseph, ed., In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology (Alyson, 1986); includes Melvin Dixon.

  Belton, Don, ed., Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream (Beacon, 1995); includes Randall Kenan.

  Blackman, Marci, and Trebor Healey, eds., Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Manic D, 1994).

  Bledsoe, Lucy Jane, ed., Lesbian Travels: A Literary Companion (Whereabouts, 1998); includes Donna Allegra.

  Blount, Marcellus, and George P. Cunningham, eds., Representing Black Men (Routledge, 1996).

  Boyd, Herb, and Robert Allen, eds., Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (Ballantine, 1995); includes Melvin Dixon, E. Lynn Harris, and Randall Kenan.

  Brandt, Eric, ed., Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality (New Press, 1999); includes Jewelle Gomez and Darieck Scott.

  Carbado, Devon W., ed., Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality (New York UP, 1999).

  Conlon, Faith, Rachel DaSilva, and Barbara Wilson, eds., The Things That Divide Us (Seal, 1985); includes Becky Birtha.

  Constantine-Simms, Delroy, ed., The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities (Alyson, 2000).

  Cruikshank, Margaret, ed., Lesbian Studies: Present and Future (Feminist, 1982); includes Becky Birtha.

  Datcher, Michael, ed., My Brother’s Keeper: Black Men’s Poetry Anthology (Datcher, 1992).

  DeCarnin, Camilla, ed., Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy (AlyCat, 1994); includes Jewelle Gomez.

  DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, Roseann Bell, and Reginald Martin, eds., Erotique Noire/ Black Erotica (Anchor, 1992); includes Jewelle Gomez.

  Dent, Gina, ed., Black Popular Culture (Bay, 1992).

  Douglas, Debbi, Courtnay McFarlane, Makeda Silvera, and Douglas Stewart, eds., Má-ka: Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by Queers of African Descent (Sister Vision, 1997); includes Cheryl Clarke.

  Drucker, Peter, ed., Different Rainbows (Gay Men’s, 2000).

  Elam, Harry J., and Robert Alexander, eds., Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays (Plume, 1996); includes Shay Youngblood.

  Featherstone, Elena, ed., Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture, and Identity (Crossing, 1994).