The Politics of Respectability

by Rae Lewis-Thornton

Rae Lewis-Thornton is an Emmy Award winning AIDS Activist and the first African-American Woman to tell her story on a cover of a national publication, Essence December 1994. I thought that she would never live to see 50 years of age. In the backdrop of my 50th birthday, I trace my life and my collision with respectability; what a black woman ought to do and be. I've been wanting to write a book by my 50th birthday for at least the last eight months...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478130652
• ISBN13: 9781478130659
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"