Appealing Because He Is Appalling

Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism

Tamari Kitossa

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781772125535
• Subtopic: Black Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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 contributors 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. Foreword by Tommy J. Curry. Contributors: Katerina Deliovsky, Delroy Hall, Dennis O. Howard, Elishma Khokhar, Tamari Kitossa, Kemar McIntosh, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Watufani M. Poe, Satwinder Rehal, John G. Russell, Mohan Siddi

Index

Figures indicated by page numbers in italics

Aarons, Derrick, 305

Abell, Walter, lxxiiin9, 4, 43n4

ableism, 192, 213–14, 216. See also Black disability

academia, 396n25

Adepoju, A., 324

Adi, Hakim, 379

Africa

Asian racism against, 325–27

colonial political economic systems, 348n5

diaspora from, 190, 393n12

Indian paternalism towards, 382–84

migration to India, history of, 362–63, 366

Orientalism and, 375

students abroad and interracial relationships, 399n34

See also India; Philippines, and collegiate basketball

Afro-Krip, 190. See also Black disability

Agathangelou, A.M., 327

agency

disability and sexual agency, 212–13

Marxism on, 288–89

sex/romance tourism and, 121–24, 130–31, 136n25

Agozino, Biko, lxxvn22

Akbar, Naim, 159

Akindes, Gerard A., 324–25

Alexander, M. Jacqui, 124, 135n18

Alexander, Sally, lxxxiiin37

Ambedkar, B.R., 362

Amin, Idi, 383–84

Amin, Samir, 348n5

amputation, 181, 222n5, 224n13

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 362, 389n1, 392n8

Anderson, Benedict, 34

Anderson, E., 328

animalization trope, 47n22, 50n38, 127, 336

Antolihao, L., 331, 347n3

anxiety, 254–55, 258, 259–60

Any Given Sunday (film), 25–26

Aponte, Wayne Lionel

The Year of No Money in Tokyo, 85, 91–93

The Arabian Nights, 49n31

Arabs, 46n20, 359–60, 375, 390n5

Arafat, Moustapha, 339–40

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword: Black Maleness as a Deleterious Category
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I | Erotic Racism, Tropes, and Interracial Sex: Art, Nations, and Transnationalism
• II | What Does a Black Man Want?: Situating the Lives of Black Men
• III | National Culture, Transqueering Black Masculinities, and Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity
• IV | The Other Other and the Black Man: Hot Sex and the Black Man in the Global South
• Contributors
• Index