Articles by Debra J. Dickerson

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IS HOMOPHOBIA JUST NARCISSISM?
Debra J. Dickerson, 3 Apr 2009

Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks so: Bigotry is the heaping of one man’s insecurity on to another. Sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, anti-immigrantism, really all come from the same place–cowardice. In his history of lynching, Phillip Dray notes that mob violence against black men wasn’t simply about keeping black men in their place–it was about keeping white […]

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