Description
Product ID: | 9780814794623 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Sexual Cultures |
Title: | The Delectable Negro |
Subtitle: | Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture |
Authors: | Author: Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce, Dwight McBride |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Ethnic studies, Anthropology, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian studies, Physical anthropology, USA |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation |
Imprint Name: | New York University Press |
Publisher Name: | New York University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-06-27 |