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9780814756850

Why I Hate Abercrombie And Fitch

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814756850

  • ISBN10:

    0814756859

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-02-01
  • Publisher: New York Univ Pr

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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 representations, the role of African American studies in higher education, gay personal ads, and pornography, he offers the evolving insights of one black gay male scholar.As adept at analyzing affirmative action as dissectingQueer Eye for the Straight Guy, McBride employs a range of academic, journalistic, and autobiographical writing styles. Each chapter speaks a version of the truth about black gay male life, African American studies, and the black community. Original and astute,Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitchis a powerful vision of a rapidly changing social landscape.

Author Biography

Dwight A. McBride is chair of the Department of African American Studies and Leon Forrest Chair of African American Studies at Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the new black studies, or beyond the old "race man"p. 17
Queer black thought
Straight black studiesp. 35
Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitchp. 59
It's a white man's world : race in the gay marketplace of desirep. 88
Race and sexuality on occasion
On race, gender, and power : the case of Anita Hillp. 135
Feel the rage : a personal remembrance of the 1992 Los Angeles uprisingp. 143
Ellen's coming out : media and public hypep. 149
Affirmative action and white ragep. 154
Straight black talk
Speaking the unspeakable : on Toni Morrison, African American intellectuals, and the uses of essentialist rhetoricp. 163
Cornel West and the rhetoric of race-transcendingp. 185
Can the queen speak? : sexuality, racial essentialism, and the problem of authorityp. 203
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