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Dwight A. McBride examines 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.

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McBrides heady collection is an accessible think piece, starting with its agreeable title and its pointed essay of the same name. * Time Out New York *
Possibly the best title of the season. * Books to Watch out For *
A fair warning from an intelligent, well-informed writer. * Alter Magazine *
A thrilling, imaginative, and brilliant reading of contemporary cultural politics from one of the freshest voices in the field today. Dwight McBrides graceful prose, sharp wit, and sound judgments leap from every page. His essays sparkle with abundant intelligenceand a striking personal investmentas they lead the reader through a complex array of ideas, practices, and situations without losing sight of the ultimate intellectual and political liberation at which they aim. Bravo! -- Michael Eric Dyson,author of The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
McBride has emerged as one of the most eloquent public voices in both queer studies and black studies. In this wide-ranging bookwritten with intelligence, passion, and humorhe brings the insights of each field to the blind spots of the other. We all have something to learn from him. -- Michael Warner,Rutgers University

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Acknowledgments PrefaceIntroduction: The New Black Studies, or beyond the Old "Race Man" Part I Queer Black Thought1 Straight Black Studies 2 Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch 3 It's a White Man's World: Race in the Gay Marketplace of Desire Part II Race and Sexuality on Occasion4 On Race, Gender, and Power: The Case of Anita Hill 5 Feel the Rage: A Personal Remembrance of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising ix6 Ellen's Coming Out: Media and Public Hype 7 Af?rmative Action and White Rage Part III Straight Black Talk8 Speaking the Unspeakable: On Toni Morrison, African American Intellectuals, and the Uses of Essentialist Rhetoric 9 Cornel West and the Rhetoric of Race-Transcending 10 Can the Queen Speak? Sexuality, Racial Essentialism, and the Problem of Authority Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/2005
      ISBN13: 9780814756867, 978-0814756867
      ISBN10: 0814756867
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dwight A. McBride examines 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.

      Trade Review
      McBrides heady collection is an accessible think piece, starting with its agreeable title and its pointed essay of the same name. * Time Out New York *
      Possibly the best title of the season. * Books to Watch out For *
      A fair warning from an intelligent, well-informed writer. * Alter Magazine *
      A thrilling, imaginative, and brilliant reading of contemporary cultural politics from one of the freshest voices in the field today. Dwight McBrides graceful prose, sharp wit, and sound judgments leap from every page. His essays sparkle with abundant intelligenceand a striking personal investmentas they lead the reader through a complex array of ideas, practices, and situations without losing sight of the ultimate intellectual and political liberation at which they aim. Bravo! -- Michael Eric Dyson,author of The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
      McBride has emerged as one of the most eloquent public voices in both queer studies and black studies. In this wide-ranging bookwritten with intelligence, passion, and humorhe brings the insights of each field to the blind spots of the other. We all have something to learn from him. -- Michael Warner,Rutgers University

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments PrefaceIntroduction: The New Black Studies, or beyond the Old "Race Man" Part I Queer Black Thought1 Straight Black Studies 2 Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch 3 It's a White Man's World: Race in the Gay Marketplace of Desire Part II Race and Sexuality on Occasion4 On Race, Gender, and Power: The Case of Anita Hill 5 Feel the Rage: A Personal Remembrance of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising ix6 Ellen's Coming Out: Media and Public Hype 7 Af?rmative Action and White Rage Part III Straight Black Talk8 Speaking the Unspeakable: On Toni Morrison, African American Intellectuals, and the Uses of Essentialist Rhetoric 9 Cornel West and the Rhetoric of Race-Transcending 10 Can the Queen Speak? Sexuality, Racial Essentialism, and the Problem of Authority Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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