The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture: 34 (Sexual Cultures)

by E. Patrick Johnson (Foreword), Dwight McBride (Editor), Justin A. Joyce (Editor), Vincent Woodard (Author)

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  2014

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  Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.