{"product_id":"black-gay-man-9780814775035","title":"Black Gay Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe landmark book that established Robert Reid-Pharr as one of America''s most exciting and challenging left intellectuals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and humorous, \u003ci\u003eBlack Gay Man \u003c\/i\u003espoils 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, \u003ci\u003eBlack Gay Man\u003c\/i\u003e introduced the eloquent voice of Robert Reid-Pharr in cultural criticism.\u003cbr\u003e At once erudite and readable, the range of topics and positions taken up in \u003ci\u003eBlack Gay Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Frant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReid-Pharr brilliantly puts the ambivalences of bodily pleasure back into the serious business of identity politics. * Project Muse Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eRepeated readings are richly rewarded. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful thing of work and play, feeling and thought, that moves through my brain as though I needed to be reminded of why I chose life as an intellectual. Reading Black Gay Man I realized once again that we all do indeed need to be reminded that to think, write, and read about identity, in this moment of fear and hysteria around a \u0026amp; different' world, is to assist a necessary articulation: the new trying to make itself out ofnot separate fromthe carcass of the old. -- Wahneema Lubiano,Duke University\u003cbr\u003eConsidering political events, publications, social movements and cultural developments that emerge from the early 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Robert Reid-Pharr looks outward so as to interrogate the very self he is understood to comprise. The result is a sort of anti-memoir of black gay male experience—a sustained rumination that so insistently inhabits the terms of that identity that it explodes them from the inside, making it impossible for any of us to bear them in quite the same way that we previously had. -- Phillip Brian Harper,author of Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations\u003cbr\u003eStartling 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 *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405907403095,"sku":"9780814775035","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814775035.jpg?v=1730493860","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-gay-man-9780814775035","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}