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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814025803321

Autore

McBride Dwight A

Titolo

Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch [[electronic resource] ] : essays on race and sexuality / / Dwight A. McBride

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University, c2005

ISBN

0-8147-5995-5

1-4294-1434-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Sexual Cultures

Disciplina

305.896/073/00722

Soggetti

African Americans - Study and teaching

African Americans - Intellectual life

African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-

Racism - United States

Sex role - United States

Sexual orientation - United States

United States Race relations

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the new Black Studies, or beyond the old 'race man' -- Straight Black Studies -- Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch -- It's a white man's world : race in the gay marketplace of desire -- On race, gender, and power : the case of Anita Hill -- Feel the rage : a personal remembrance of the 1992 Los Angelos uprising -- Ellen's coming out : media and public hype -- Affirmative action and white rage -- Speaking the unspeakable : on Toni Morrison, African American intellectuals, and essentialist rhetoric -- Cornel West and the rhetoric of race transcending -- Can the queen speak? : sexuality, racial essentialism, and the problem of authority.

Sommario/riassunto

Why hate Abercrombie? In a world rife with human cruelty and oppression, why waste your scorn on a popular clothing retailer? The rationale, Dwight A. McBride argues, lies in "the banality of evil," or the quiet way discriminatory hiring practices and racist ad campaigns seep into and reflect malevolent undertones in American culture. McBride maintains that issues of race and sexuality are often subtle and always



messy, and his compelling new book does not offer simple answers. Instead, in a collection of essays about such diverse topics as biased marketing strategies, black gay media represen