Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black Intellectual

Choice, Desire, and the Black Intellectual, Robert Reid- Pharr takes as his premise a fundamental ambiguity in race and ethnicity studies- namely, the fact that race is constructed, on the one hand, through social discourses that are external to the African American community, and on the other by id...

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Published in:Studies in the novel 2009, Vol.41 (2), p.273-276
Main Author: FISHER, REBECKA RUTLEDGE
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994)
Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
LGBTQ rights movements
Newton, Huey P (1942-1989)
Race
REVIEWS
Studies
Van Peebles, Melvin
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Summary:Choice, Desire, and the Black Intellectual, Robert Reid- Pharr takes as his premise a fundamental ambiguity in race and ethnicity studies- namely, the fact that race is constructed, on the one hand, through social discourses that are external to the African American community, and on the other by ideas associated with these discourses that are, paradoxically, promulgated within this community. Too often in a book that is concerned with absolute difference we read of the author's sense of beleaguerment with what he calls "our tendency to frame all discussion of black intellectual life with outmoded conceptions of a static Black American history and culture" (160, italics added).
ISSN:0039-3827
1934-1512
1934-1512
DOI:10.1353/sdn.0.0034