Left out : the politics of exclusion : essays, 1964-1999

M. Duberman

Contents: pt. 1. Histories of oppression -- ch. 1. Race -- Northern response to slavery (1964) -- Latest word on slavery in the United States (1974) -- ch. 2. Gender and sexuality -- Historical interpretation and the politics of evidence -- "Father" of the Homophile Movement -- Masters and Johnson -- Kinsey's urethra -- ch. 3. Foreign policy -- Vietnam and American foreign policy (1967) -- Havana Inquiry (1974) -- Gulf War (1991) -- pt. 2. Sites of resistance: the sixties and seventies -- ch. 1. Black struggle -- "Moderation" versus "militancy" (1964) -- James Meredith (1966) -- Taking stock (1967) -- Black power and the American radical tradition (1968) -- ch. 2. Radicalism on campus -- "Dissenting academy" -- On misunderstanding student rebels -- Experiment in education -- Young radicals: politics or culture? -- Shifting mood on campus in the seventies -- Coda (1996) Multicultural curriculum -- ch. 3. Emerging Gay Movement and feminism -- Sex and love: Mailer/Miller/Millett -- Feminism and gay men -- A. Gay Academic Union -- B. National Gay Task Force -- Sex and the military: the Matlovich case (1976) -- Anita Bryant Brigade (1977) -- pt. 3. Old saws/new refrains -- ch. 1. Tenacity of race -- Black response to William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner -- Racism in the gay male world (1982) -- Writing Robeson -- "New" (1997) scholarship on race relations -- ch. 2. Reconfiguring the gay struggle -- (Contested) new history of gays and lesbians -- Breaking the codes: biography and art -- Epidemic arguments -- ch. 3. In conclusion -- Divided left: identity politics versus class.