Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Pan-Africanism or Sexual Imperialism: White Supremacy,
Hellenomania, and Discourses of Sexuality
2. The Madness of Gender in Plantation America: Sex, Womanhood, and
U.S. Chattel Slavery, Revisited
3. Sexual Imitation and the Lumpen-Bourgeoisie: Race and Class as
Erotic Conflict in E. Franklin Frazier
4. Sexual Imitation and the "Little Greedy Caste": Race and Class
as Erotic Conflict in Frantz Fanon
5. Colonialism and Erotic Desire—in English: The Case of Jamaica
Kincaid
6. Neo-colonial Canons of Gender and Sexuality, after COINTELPRO:
Black Power Bodies/Black Popular Culture and Counter-insurgent
Critiques of Sexism and Homophobia
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
A book that rigorously interrogates the language of body politics in the context of neo-colonialist domination
Greg Thomas is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University and editor of Proud Flesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics, & Consciousness.
"Thomas offers here one of the most provocative and consequential
analyses of empire and sexual politics in recent years. His work
provides new ways of conceptualizing sexuality, race, and empire
which makes the case for rethinking all of the ways in which these
fields are studied. His erudition is vast and the acuity of his
analysis, unparalleled." —Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor,
University of California, Berkeley
"This book is an amazing intervention into a range of related
contemporary discourses as it provides important and informed
critiques of imperialism. As we witness new formations of empire
and sexuality via incidents like Abu Ghraib, it is important to
recall these old manifestations of imperialism. This is perhaps the
only text now that one can read about pan—Africanist projects and
the particular conjunctions of sexuality and colonialism. Greg
Thomas, a leading member of a new generation of scholars, advances
well the activist intellectual work of the best in the black
radical intellectual tradition. This is a scholar whose stunning
intellectual energy already challenges, troubles, bothers
entrenched, fixed positions as it clearly stimulates new
discussions and reverberates in a range of related fields. —Carole
Boyce Davies, Professor of Africa" —New World Studies and English,
Florida International University
"I found this book to be not only a stimulating and
thought-provoking read, but
also one that was impressive for how accessible Thomas made such a
thoroughgoing analysis of a broad range of fields. This review can
only hint at the richness of the text and the powerful nature of
the argumentation. Thomas must be commended for his ability to so
clearly capture such an in-depth critique in ways that are always
already reconstructive at the same time as they are
deconstructive." —Body & Society
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