ubalstecha's review
5.0
This is a facisnating look at the hidden culture of bisexuality and homeosexuality in the African-American Community. A refutation of J.L. King's On the Down Low.
moreteamorecats's review
3.0
The imperatives behind this book are multiple. Boykin is out, primarily, to dispel the myth that skyrocketing rates of AIDS among Black women stem from their male partners' habitual infidelity with men. That he does, and quite nicely too. (In fact, it's not even that AIDS cases are up among Black women, but that they're down so much among White women.)
At the book's other functions-- coming-out memoir, policy brief for a renewed public response to AIDS among Blacks, media critique, account of fidelity mores-- its success is more mixed. All but a few chapters, however, are thought-provoking, and the best ones (those most relevant to the central point) are the most useful material I've read on the subject.
At the book's other functions-- coming-out memoir, policy brief for a renewed public response to AIDS among Blacks, media critique, account of fidelity mores-- its success is more mixed. All but a few chapters, however, are thought-provoking, and the best ones (those most relevant to the central point) are the most useful material I've read on the subject.
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