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Title: Black Gay Man: Essays by Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Samuel R. Delany ISBN: 0-8147-7503-9 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: deceptive title from a hyper-academic writer
Comment: TO NONACADEMIC READERS: Be forewarned! Don't let the title deceive you. This is not a cute, accessible anthology with writings that would interest the average gay, black man. This is not "Brother to Brother" or "Fighting Words." This is a series of musings from a professor that is clearly trying to impress a tenure review board. TO ACADEMIC READERS: Reid-Pharr gives nine chapters which deal with theoretical questions on race, sexuality, and gender. The title is supposed to scare you in its seeming essentialism. The book is divided into three sections: black, gay, and man; but these are arbitrary. Reid-Pharr's project is to critique obtuse, overly "socially-constructed" academic hyperbabble without returning to played-out identity politics. However, this book is just as theoretically burdensome as any other recent cultural studies. Shockingly, the author never once mentions postmodernism and only discusses modernism. A lot of this book seems borrowed: the grotesque picture on the cover smacks of Mapplethorpe; the raunchy sexual tales are influenced by Delaney; the "I'm a lesbian" line comes from Sedgwick and Francisco Valdes. I usually would say all black gay lit. enthusiasts should buy something like this; but I can't say that this time. This book is going to disappoint many. It reminds me of Hazel Carby's weird "Race Men" book.
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Title: On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Men by J.L. King ISBN: 0767913981 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 14 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities by Delroy Constantine-Simms, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ISBN: 1555835643 Publisher: Alyson Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality by Eric Brandt ISBN: 1565844556 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: In Montgomery: And Other Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks ISBN: 0883782324 Publisher: Third World Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America by Keith Boykin ISBN: 0385479832 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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