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Checked out
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Publication
NYU Press (2007), 184 pages
Description
2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies. Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics are now engaged. While at its most elemental Once You Go Black is an homage to these thinkers, it is at the same time a reconsideration of black Americans as agents, and not simply products, of history. Reid-Pharr contends that our current notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2007)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2007
ISBN
0814775837 / 9780814775837