Traps: African American men on gender and sexuality

The rights of women / Frederick Douglass

Give women fair play / Frederick Douglass /

I am a radical woman suffrage man / Frederick Douglass

The Black woman of the south / Alexander Crummell

The damnation of women / W.E.B. Du Bois

"When and where [we] enter" / Gary L. Lemons

In the days of my youth / Benjamin E. Mays

Feminism and equality / Bayard Rustin

Women's rights are human rights / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Groundings with my sisters / Manning Marable

Breaking silences / Calvin Hernton

On becoming anti-rapist / Haki R. Madhubui

The sexual diversion / Derrick Bell

A Black man's place in Black feminist criticism / Michael Awkward

Men / Nathan McCall

Mission statement of Black men for the eradication of sexism, Morehouse College

Here be dragons / James Baldwin

In the limelight / Arthur J. Robinson, jr.

The sexist in me / Kevin Powell

A phenomenology of the Black body / Charles Johnson

Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man / Henry Louis Gates, jr.

Mike's brilliant career / Gerald Early

It's raining men / Robert F. Reid-Pharr

Dear Minister Farrakhan / Men Stopping Violence

Black men in the movies / Edward Guerrero

A letter from Huey to the revolutionary brothers and sisters about the women's liberation and gay liberation movements / Huey P. Newton

Brother to brother / Joseph Beam

Black macho revisited / Marlon Riggs

Does your mama know about me? / Essex Hemphill

Black sexuality / Cornel West

When you divide body and soul, problems multiply / Michael Eric Dyson

"Ain't nothin' like the real thing" / Kendall Thomas

Epilogue / Reflections of Black manhood.