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Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch : essays on race and sexuality / Dwight A. McBride.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McBride, Dwight A.
- Series:
- Sexual Cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Study and teaching.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Sexual orientation--United States.
- Sexual orientation.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Why I hate Abercrombie and Fitch
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why hate Abercrombie? In a world rife with human cruelty and oppression, why waste your scorn on a popular clothing retailer? The rationale, Dwight A. McBride argues, lies in "the banality of evil," or 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. Instead, in a collection of essays about such diverse topics as biased marketing strategies, black gay media represen
- Contents:
- Introduction : the new Black Studies, or beyond the old 'race man'
- Straight Black Studies
- Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch
- It's a white man's world : race in the gay marketplace of desire
- On race, gender, and power : the case of Anita Hill
- Feel the rage : a personal remembrance of the 1992 Los Angelos uprising
- Ellen's coming out : media and public hype
- Affirmative action and white rage
- Speaking the unspeakable : on Toni Morrison, African American intellectuals, and essentialist rhetoric
- Cornel West and the rhetoric of race transcending
- Can the queen speak? : sexuality, racial essentialism, and the problem of authority.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-5995-5
- 1-4294-1434-0
- OCLC:
- 647537654
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