Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (Sexual Cultures)
by Robert Reid-Pharr
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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 show more history. Reid-Pharr contends that our current notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor show lessTags
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Robert F. Reid-Pharr is Distinguished and Presidential Professor of American Studies and English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of three books, Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (NYU Press, 2007), Black Gay Man: Essays (NYU Press, 2001), and Conjugal Union: The Body, show more the House, and the Black American (1999). show less
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- 2007
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Literature Studies and Criticism, Sexuality and Gender Studies, LGBTQ+, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
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- 305.896 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin
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- E185.86 .R418 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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