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Author Reid-Pharr, Robert

Title Black Gay Man : Essays
Published New York : NYU Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Series Sexual Cultures
Sexual cultures
Contents Acknowledgments; Foreword by Samuel R. Delany; Introduction; BLACK; I Speaking through Anti-Semitism; II Cosmopolitan Afrocentric Mulatto Intellectual; III At Home in America; GAY; IV Dinge; V Tearing the Goat's Flesh; VI The Shock of Gary Fisher; MAN; VII Living as a Lesbian; VIII It's Raining Men: Notes on the Million Man March; IX A Child's Life; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary At turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and humorous, Black Gay Man will spoil our preconceived notions of not only what it means to be black, gay and male but also what it means to be a contemporary intellectual. Both a celebration of black gay male identity as well as a powerful critique of the structures that allow for the production of that identity, Black Gay Man introduces the eloquent new voice of Robert Reid-Pharr in cultural criticism. At once erudite and readable, the range of topics and positions taken up in Black Gay Man reflect the complexity of American life itsel
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Subject Gay men -- United States -- Intellectual life
African American gay men -- Intellectual life
African Americans -- Race identity.
African American gay men -- Identity.
African American gay men -- Identity
African Americans -- Race identity
Gay men -- Intellectual life
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Delany, Samuel R
ISBN 9780814769218
0814769217
0814775039
9780814775035
0814775020
9780814775028