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The ““Top”” of the Heap: Race, Manhood, and Legitimation inMy Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story
This essay considers the ways in which the life and career of the black gay porn superstar Bobby Blake reflect the tensions and dynamics of black masculinity as a form of social subjectivity. Analysis of his films in conjunction with his autobiography and scholarship on gay pornography reveals how Blake's primary commitment to a notion of black Christian manhood both in and outside of the church proper grounds many of the contradictions in his life narrative and public persona.
Journal Article
The 'Top' of the Heap: Race, Manhood, and Legitimation in My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story
This essay considers the ways in which the life and career of the black gay porn superstar Bobby Blake reflect the tensions and dynamics of black masculinity as a form of social subjectivity. Analysis of his films in conjunction with his autobiography and scholarship on gay pornography reveals how Blake's primary commitment to a notion of black Christian manhood both in and outside of the church proper grounds many of the contradictions in his life narrative and public persona.
Journal Article
A play of abstractions: race, sexuality, and community in James Baldwin's Another Country
The critical failure to consider seriously the lack of continuity uniting the persona of racial spokesman that James Baldwin adopts in many of his essays is discussed. Baldwin's novel \"Another Country\" is examined.
Journal Article
Postcolonial Transplants: Cinema, Diaspora and the Body Politic
A major consequence of the diasporic movement of people across national borders — albeit one that has not received the analytical attention it deserves — has been the compromising of ethical and legal systems, which had previously been naturalized as modes of national self-recognition and corporeal integrity. The body politic can only function politically, that is, it can only foster a shared sense of community and responsibility when the lines between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour are clear and accepted by all ‘good’ citizens.1 The focus on political subjectivity as citizenship can, however, lessen our recognition of the corporeal reality of subaltern bodies whose availability for exploitation is enabled precisely by their often structurally agonistic relation to the category of ‘good citizen’. Because of this agonistic potential, the body politic often rejects those intrusive agents that are deemed to threaten its survival and integrity. The transnational seepage and viral or even metastatic potential of bodies coded as alien (in ethnic and/or gendered terms) is perceived to compromise the ability of political bodies — be they nation states or other types of federal unions — to function in terms of boundary maintenance and cultural reproduction.
Book Chapter
How Racism Takes Place
[...]the lack of any consideration of the ways in which African Americans and other minorities have turned to the web to both contest and circumvent the very problems that Lipsitz discusses in How Racism Takes Place is both telling and surprising. [...]despite his investment in \"place\" as the maker of disadvantage, George Lipsitz's racially localized image of black community makes blacks seem all dressed up with literally no \"place\" to go, or certainly no new place.
Book Review
The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader
Rowden reviews \"The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader\" edited by Eric J. Sundquist.
Journal Article