Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch
{{short description|2005 book by Dwight A. McBride}}
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| author = Dwight A. McBride
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| subject = gay and black feminist and queer cultural commentary on race and sexuality
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| publisher = NYU Press
| release_date = 2005
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| media_type = Print (Hardcover)
| pages = 267
| isbn = 978-0-8147-5686-7
| dewey = 305.896/073/00722 22
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Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality is a book by Dwight A. McBride on ethno-relational mores in contemporary gay African America with a nod to black, feminist and queer cultural contexts "dedicated to integrating sexuality and race into black and queer studies."{{cite web
| last =Bradway
| first =Tyler
| title=Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality.(Book review)
| publisher=West Chester University
| date=September 22, 2006
| url =http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25441344_ITM
| accessdate=2007-08-15}}
Publication history
McBride published the book while serving as dean of the Graduate School at Northwestern University, where he was Chair of the Department of African American Studies from 2002 to 2007. The book was published by New York University Press.
Content
The book is divided into three main sections: "Queer Black Thought", "Race and Sexuality on Occasion" and "Straight Black Talk", all exploring facets of the intersections of race, sexuality, class and gender issues. The often personal essays speak to the "ghettoization of black men in gay male porn"{{cite web
|last = Johnson
|first = Ramone
|title = Top 10 Gay Books You Should Already Own (Non Fiction)
|publisher = About.com: Gay Life
|year = 2007
|url = http://gaylife.about.com/od/gaybooks/tp/topgaybooks.htm
|accessdate = 2007-08-15
|archive-date = 2007-08-30
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070830083605/http://gaylife.about.com/od/gaybooks/tp/topgaybooks.htm
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}} to broader subjects including the book's namesake Abercrombie & Fitch and how the clothing retailer influences the gay African-American male. McBride has been recognized as a specialist in bridging LGBT and racial issues illuminating both.{{cite web
| last =Davis
| first =Andrew
| title=Dwight McBride: Dean and Heard
| publisher=Windy City Times
| date=July 18, 2007
| url =http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=15576
| accessdate=2007-08-15}}
Reception
The book has been used in queer studies{{cite web|url=http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/polisci/pcurrah/ids70100.pdf|title=Introduction to LBGTQ Studies|last=Currah|first=Professor P.|author2=Professor A. Mukherjea|date=May 3, 2006|publisher=Brooklyn College|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907170351/http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/polisci/pcurrah/ids70100.pdf|archivedate=September 7, 2006|url-status=dead|accessdate=2007-08-15}}{{cite web|url=http://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/student_info/syllabus/133_syllabus_f05.pdf|title=Gender and Sexuality, BLST 133|last=Banks|first=Dr. Ingrid|date=Fall 2005|publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902125745/http://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/student_info/syllabus/133_syllabus_f05.pdf|archivedate=September 2, 2006|url-status=dead|accessdate=2007-08-15}}{{cite web|url=https://javiergutierrez.efoliomn1.com/vertical/Sites/{E146FF9B-0B16-40AE-A47F-8230C5729FA6}/uploads/{51E0D519-D9A7-4F95-AFE5-BC9CCFF8D344}.DOC|title=Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender People in Literature and Film|last=Gutierrez|first=Javier|author2=Stachia Ullmann|date=Fall 2006|publisher=Hamline University|accessdate=2007-08-15|author3=Kristen Falde}} as well as related college courses in universities{{cite web|url=http://www.oberlin.edu/CAS/Syllabus/2006-2007/CAS%20412%20spring%2007%20syllabus.doc|title=Oberlin College, Dr. Meredith Raimondo, CAST 412|last=Raimondo|first=Dr. Meredith|date=Spring 2007|publisher=Oberlin College|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901190755/http://www.oberlin.edu/CAS/Syllabus/2006-2007/CAS%20412%20spring%2007%20syllabus.doc|archivedate=September 1, 2013|url-status=dead|accessdate=2007-08-15}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/news/sylibi/spring2007/117-balay.doc|title=Gender, Sexuality, and Literature, English 117|last=Balay|first=Professor Anne|date=Spring 2007|publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago|accessdate=2007-08-15}}{{cite web|url=http://media4.ucsc.edu:16080/woo/cmmu156/index.htm|title=CMMU STU 156 Corporate Culture, Structure, and Race|last=Woo|first=Deborah|date=Spring 2006|publisher=UC Santa Cruz|accessdate=2007-08-15}} McBride was a guest speaker at several universities speaking about the essay's subjects of race and sexuality in America.{{cite web|url=http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/speakerseries.php|title=2005-2006 Speakers Series: Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies|date=February 6, 2006|publisher=Washington State University|accessdate=2007-08-15}}{{cite web|url=http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/speakerseries.php|title="Race, Faith, and Sexuality" co-presented by Program in Africana Studies and the Department of Religious Studies|date=February 6, 2006|publisher=University of Miami Department of English|accessdate=2007-08-15}}{{cite web|url=http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu/archives/2005FallPages/SecularismConference.htm|title=Rethinking Secularism in an Age of Belief|year=2005|publisher=The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory|accessdate=2007-08-15}}
In his review for GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Rinaldo Walcott said, "McBride's multidisciplinary essays cross-pollinate black studies and queer theory to challenge both fields to account for their blind spots, their key debates, and their claims to authority."{{Cite journal|last=Walcott|first=Rinaldo|date=2006-05-10|title=The New African American Studies: Blackening Queer Studies and Sexing Black Studies|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/197486|journal=GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies|language=en|volume=12|issue=3|pages=510–513|issn=1527-9375|doi=10.1215/10642684-2005-010|s2cid=143876388}}
In her review for Women's Studies Quarterly, Khary Polk said the book's combination of "polemic and erotic memoir" created "a lithe intellectual portrait of a black gay Christian man's journey into academe."{{Cite journal|last=Polk|first=Khary|date=2007|title=Review of Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in America|journal=Women's Studies Quarterly|volume=35|issue=1/2|pages=310–314|jstor=27649678}}
Awards
The collection of essays "offering contemporary cultural criticism" was a 2006 Lambda Literary Award and 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee{{cite web|url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/search/deanlas.html|title=Search – Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences|last=Tanner|first=R. Michael|year=2007|publisher=University of Illinois Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812111804/http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/search/deanlas.html |archivedate=2007-08-12|accessdate=2007-08-15}} as well as the Passing The Torch winner from the New York University Press.{{cite web|url=http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Clags/archives/awardees_torch.shtml|title=Passing The Torch|year=2007|publisher=City University of New York The Graduate Center|accessdate=2007-08-15}}
Selected reviews
- Bradway, Tyler. College Literature, Fall 2006, Vol. 33 Issue 4, pgs. 223–225.
References
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=oYUn6OXLdaoC Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch], at Google Books
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