Dwight A. McBride is een toonaangevende stem in African American Studies. Zijn werk duikt diep in de complexiteit van identiteit, ras en cultuur binnen het Amerikaanse landschap. Door middel van scherpe analyses en een kenmerkende stem onderzoekt hij hoe deze concepten worden gevormd door historische en maatschappelijke krachten. McBride's geschriften dagen lezers uit om de aard en de implicaties van raciale identiteit en de impact ervan op individuele en collectieve ervaringen te overwegen.
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.
Reflections on the ways discriminatory hiring practices and racist ad campaigns seep into American lifeWhy 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 dissecting Queer 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 & Fitch is a powerful vision of a rapidly changing social landscape.