{"title":"Martin Duberman","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Duberman's works offer intimate reflections and deeply personal narratives, blending memoir with rich biography. Through books like \u003cem\u003eHold Tight Gently\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eReaching Ninety\u003c\/em\u003e, readers encounter a profound exploration of identity, memory, and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis writing invites contemplation on the passage of time and the complexities of human experience, making his collections compelling for those drawn to thoughtful, evocative life stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"reaching-ninety-by-martin-duberman-9781641608800","title":"Reaching Ninety","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community's maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he's learned.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the early Sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as \"misguided fanatics.\" In 1964, his documentary play, \u003ci\u003eIn White America\u003c\/i\u003e, which reread the history of racist oppression in this country, toured the country—most notably during Freedom Summer—and became an international hit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuberman then took on the profession of history for failing to admit the inherent subjectivity of all re-creations of the past. He radically democratized his own seminars at Princeton, for which he was excoriated by powerful professors in his own department, leading him to renounce his tenured full professorship and to join the faculty of the CUNY Graduate School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt CUNY, too, he was initially blocked from offering a pioneering set of seminars on the history of gender and sexuality, but after a fifteen-year struggle succeeded in establishing the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies—-which became a beacon for emerging scholars in that new field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the early Seventies, Duberman had broadened his struggle against injustice by becoming active in protesting the war in Vietnam and in playing a central role in forming the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force and Queers for Economic Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDown to the present-day, he continues through his writing to champion those working for a more equitable society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845579821292,"sku":"9781641608800","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13078123482772.jpg?v=1758887348"},{"product_id":"hold-tight-gently-by-martin-duberman-9781620971925","title":"Hold Tight Gently","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched and evocatively told, \u003cem\u003eHold Tight Gently\u003c\/em\u003e is historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes of the early years of the epidemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComposer Michael Callen became a leading figure in the movement to increase awareness of AIDS in the face of wilful neglect. Essex Hemphill contributed to the black gay and lesbian flowering in Washington, D.C., with poetry of searing intensity and introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA profound exploration of the intersection of race, sexuality, class, identity and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536654713068,"sku":"9781620971925","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781620971925-hold-tight-gently.jpg?v=1776385548"},{"product_id":"hold-tight-gently-by-martin-duberman-9781595589453","title":"Hold Tight Gently","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched and evocatively told, \u003cem\u003eHold Tight Gently\u003c\/em\u003e is historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes of the early years of the epidemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComposer Michael Callen became a leading figure in the movement to increase awareness of AIDS in the face of wilful neglect. 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