Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism - Softcover

Tamari Kitossa; Satwinder Rehal; Tommy J. Curry; Katerina Deliovsky; Delroy Hall; Dennis O. Howard; Elishma Noel; Kemar McIntosh; Leroy F. Moore; Watufani M. Poe; John G. Russell; Mohan Siddi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772125431 ISBN 13: 9781772125436

Publisher: University of Alberta Press (CA), 2021

Synopsis

This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the authors collected here examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing authors use Baldwin's and Fanon's cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black masculinities to demonstrate their neglected contributions to thinking about and beyond colonialist and Western gender and masculinity studies. This innovative and sophisticated work will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, gender and masculinities studies, sociology, political science, history, and critical race and racialization.

About this title

About the Author

Tamari Kitossa is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brock University. He studies the convergences of race, racism, and criminalization. He is a contributor to and co-editor of African Canadian Leadership.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press (CA)
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1772125431
• ISBN 13: 9781772125436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Tamari Kitossa