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

By: McBride, Dwight A.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : New York University, c2005Description: xiv, 251 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Why I hate Abercrombie and Fitch.Subject(s): 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 relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.896/073/00722 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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