Black Gay Man

At turns biographical, political, erotic, and humorous, "Black Gay Man" aims to spoil 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 critique of the structures that allow for the production of that identity, this text introduces the new voice of Robert Reid-Pharr in cultural criticism.

Winner of Triangle Awards (Gay Nonfiction) 2002

“"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”

"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

Robert F. Reid-Pharr is Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. He is the author of four books: Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016), 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, the House, and the Black American (1999).

At turns biographical, political, erotic, and humorous, "Black Gay Man" aims to spoil 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 critique of the structures that allow for the production of that identity, this text introduces the new voice of Robert Reid-Pharr in cultural criticism.

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