African Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory into Everyday Practice

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am grateful to all the authors whose works are included in this volume for sharing intimate details regarding their feminist practices. Special thanks to Jacqueline Lapidus for providing feedback on earlier versions of the manuscript. Three chapters in this book are reprinted. An earlier version of chapter 2, Mark Anthony Neal’s “Bringing Up Daddy: A Black Feminist Fatherhhood,” is reproduced from Neal’s book New Black Man (Routledge, 2005) with permission from Taylor Francis. Pearl Cleage’s chapter 8 essay, “The Second Time Around,” is reprinted here with her permission. Gary L. Lemons’s chapter 12, “Learning to Love the Little Black Boy in Me: Breaking Family Silences, Ending Shame,” is reproduced from his book Black Male Outsider: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man, A Memoir (SUNY, 2007) with permission from the State University of New York Press. Haki Madhubuti’s poem “My Brothers” from his book Groundwork: New and Selected Poems from 1966–1996 (Chicago: Third World) is reproduced in chapter 6 with his permission. ix ...