One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem (Men & Masculinity)
by William G. Hawkeswood

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Book Review: Beyond sympathetic identification into special pleading
Summary: 4 Stars

Hawkeswood was so intent on challenging the focus on black male irresponsibility (and pathology), that he claims no one else studied middle-class blacks (ignoring SLIM'S TABLE, BLACK BOURGEOIS, etc.). On his way to providing an antithesis of the studies of junkies and slackers, he comes across as a Candide (or Pangloss), downplaying homophobia and "fagbashing" in Harlem and making his informants come across as almost saintly in their devotion to their churches, natal families, and social networks. Hawkeswood gathered some interesting material, and the social science literature IS slanted toward black ne're-do-wells, but is the solution "politically correct" bias in the other direction?

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