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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778103503321

Autore

Reid-Pharr Robert <1965->

Titolo

Once you go Black [[electronic resource] ] : choice, desire, and the Black American intellectual / / Robert Reid-Pharr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-7648-5

0-8147-7749-X

1-4356-0740-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Sexual cultures

Disciplina

305.896/07300904

Soggetti

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African American intellectuals

African Americans - Race identity

Masculinity - United States - History - 20th century

Racism - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Sexual behavior - History - 20th century

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Racism in literature

Sex role in literature

Sex in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Existential Negro; Going Black; 1 The Funny Father's Luck; 2 Ralph Ellison's Blues; 3 Alas Poor Jimmy; Coming Back?; 4 Saint Huey; 5 Queer Sweetback; Conclusion: Deviant Desiring; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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