Robert F Reid Pharr: 4 books
Archives of Flesh
African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals
In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a...
Once You Go Black
Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
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...
Black Gay Man
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
At turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and humorous, Black Gay Man will spoil 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...
Conjugal Union
The Body, the House, and the Black American
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1999
In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public...