{"product_id":"the-truth-that-never-hurts-25th-anniversary-edition-writings-on-race-gender-and-freedom-paperback","title":"The Truth That Never Hurts 25th Anniversary Edition: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race, class, sexuality and gender is gathered in \u003ci\u003eThe Truth That Never Hurts\u003c\/i\u003e. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black women's literature, Black lesbian writing, racism in the women's movement, Black-Jewish relations, and homophobia in the Black community. Her forays into these areas ignited dialogue about topics that few other writers were addressing at the time, and which, sadly, remain pertinent to this day. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition, in a beautiful new package, also contains the essays from the original about the 1968 Chicago convention demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate hearings; and police brutality against Rodney King and Abner Louima, which, after twenty-five years, still have the urgency they did when they were first written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBARBARA SMITH is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eConditions: Five, The Black Women's Issue\u003c\/i\u003e (with Lorraine Bethel); and \u003ci\u003eAll the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (with Akasha (Gloria) Hull and Patricia Bell-Scott). She is the general editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History\u003c\/i\u003e (with Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, and Gloria Steinem), and is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eYours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism\u003c\/i\u003e (with Minnie Bruce Pratt and Elly Bulkin). A collection of her essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by Rutgers University Press in 1998 and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and was a Nonfiction Award finalist for the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award. \u003ci\u003eAin't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith was published in 2014. It won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir\/Biography and the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle. Smith was the cofounder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. Publisher for women of color until 1995, and served two terms as a member of the Albany Common Council from 2006-2013. In 2005, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.95 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765364031776,"sku":"9781978839045","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2e6c35dc625d216edb60c92a94b0d589.webp?v=1780267238","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-truth-that-never-hurts-25th-anniversary-edition-writings-on-race-gender-and-freedom-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}