Once You Go Black : Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual.
2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies. Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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NYU Press,
2007
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| Series: | Sexual cultures.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies. Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics are now engaged. While at its most elemental Once You Go Black is an homage to these thinkers, it is at the same time a reconsideration of black Americans as agents, and not simply products, of history. Reid-Pharr contends that our current notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814777497 081477749X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
