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This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. D'Emilio and Freedman have selected sixteen of his most important essays which provide a retrospective on Berube's life and work while documenting the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s.

This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (1990), Berube also wrote extensively on the history of sexual politics in San Francisco and on the relationship between sexuality, class, and race. John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, who were close colleagues and friends of Berube, have selected sixteen of his most important essays, includ.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White -- ''The Souls of White Folks'' -- The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness -- White Racial Projects -- The ''Morphing'' Properties of Whiteness -- ''White Devils'' Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit -- Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets -- Perfidious Albion: Whiteness and the International Imagination -- The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the ''Vital Center'' -- How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays -- (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations -- Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of ''Whiteness'' for Activism and the Academy -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index