Appealing Because He Is Appalling

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.

“Appealing Because He Is Appalling engages critically with the work of James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, exploring various registers of Black masculinity, Black sexuality and anti-Black racism. It is intersectional, reflective of social and political context, varied, and original in its scope.” Eddie Bruce-Jones, Reader in Law & Anthropology, Birkbeck College, University of London

• Foreword xiBlack Maleness as a Deleterious Category / Tommy J. Curry Preface xxviiAcknowledgements xxxvIntroduction xxxixTamari Kitossa I Erotic Racism, Tropes, and Interracial SexArt, Nations, and Transnationalism 1 Can the Black Man Be Nude in a Culture That Imagines Him as Naked? 3A Baldwinian and Fanonian Psychosexual Reading of Black Masculinity in “Western” Art and Cinema / Tamari Kitossa 2 Anaconda East 59Fetishes, Phallacies, Chimbo Chauvinism, and the Displaced Discourse of Black Male Sexuality in Japan / John G. Russell 3 White Femininity, Black Masculinity, Sex/Romance Tourism, and the Politics of Feminist Theory 105Theorizing Desire and Erotic Racism / Katerina Deliovsky II What Does a Black Man Want?Situating the Lives of Black Men 4 Beyond the Exotic and the Grotesque 143Toward a Theology of Black Men and Radical Self-Love in the United Kingdom / Delroy Hall 5 A Krip-Hop Theory of Disabled Black Men 177Challenging the Disabling of Black America, Resisting Killing and Erasure Through the Arts and Self-Empowerment / Leroy F. Moore Jr. & Tamari Kitossa III National Culture, Transqueering Black Masculinities, and Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity 6 Carrying Corporeal Narratives 235Weighing the Burden of Antiqueer Representations in Jamaica / Kemar McIntosh 7 A Quare Eye to Slavery 265Black Homoerotic Encounters in Brazil and Cuba / Watufani M. Poe 8 “7 Eleven” 285Dialectics of Jamaican Popular Music Culture and Hegemonic Masculinity / Dennis O. Howard IV The Other Other and the Black ManHot Sex and the Black Man in the Global South 9 Sila ay Malaki 319Anti-African Racism, the “Filipino Gaze,” and the Paradox of Black Masculinity in Collegiate Basketball in the Philippines / Satwinder Singh Rehal 10 A Fanonist Reading of Anti-Black Sexual Racism in the Indian Imaginary 357Siddis, African Students, Anti-Blackness, and Psychosexual Politics in the Indian Ocean World and Its Diaspora / Tamari Kitossa, Elishma Noel Khokhar, & Mohan Siddi Contributors 409Index 413