"Startling and provocative. . . . Reid-Pharr presents a cogent
analysis that combines the personal with the political, the
intellectual with the emotional and the erotic. . . . Reid-Pharr's
ability to move these works-and their themes-from the limited
analysis of the academy into a broader realm of lived experience
and social context that makes them, as well as Reid-Pharr's own
thoughts, vital and genuinely consequential."
"Publisher's Weekly"
"Repeated readings are richly rewarded."
--"CHOICE"
"Reid-Pharr brilliantly puts the ambivalences of bodily pleasure
back into the serious business of identity politics."
--"Project Muse Book Review"
At turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and
humorous, Black Gay Man will spoil our preconceived notions of not
only what it means to be black, gay and male but also what it means
to be a contemporary intellectual. Both a celebration of black gay
male identity as well as a powerful critique of the structures that
allow for the production of that identity, Black Gay Man introduces
the eloquent new voice of Robert Reid-Pharr in cultural
criticism.
At once erudite and readable, the range of topics and positions
taken up in Black Gay Man reflect the complexity of American life
itself. Treating subjects as diverse as the Million Man March,
interracial sex, anti-Semitism, turn of the century American
intellectualism as well as literary and cultural figures ranging
from Essex Hemphill and Audre Lorde to W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon
and James Baldwin, Black Gay Man is a bold and nuanced attempt to
question prevailing ideas about community, desire, politics and
culture. Moving beyond critique, Reid-Pharr also pronouncesupon the
promises of a new America. With the publication of Black Gay Man,
Robert Reid-Pharr is sure to take his place as one of this
country's most exciting and challenging left intellectuals.
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