The C.O.W.S. THE DELECTABLE NEGRO Part 6

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the sixth study session on Vincent Woodard's The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture. Mr. Woodard died in 2008, but this book was posthumously published in 2014. author and scholar Dr. Tommy J. Curry highly recommended this book on one of his earliest C.O.W.S. interviews - highlighting the importance of Woodard's research on the rape of black males. Last week's session expamined the questionable suggestions that Frederick Douglass may have subscribed to a more "fluid" notion of gender and sexuality - positing that some of the metaphors in Douglass' fiction convey homoerotic messages. The session also covered Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - one of the most popular slave memoirs published. Woodard stresses that Jacobs' work is essentially the only publication of the time period where anyone - much less a black female - openly discribes the rape of black males on the plantation. Woodard explores the psychological trauma of violent sexual emasculation - described by Woodard as when white masters treat black males like black women. Woodard continues to artfully indentify numerous examples of black bodies being "seasoned" and devoured by white "human fleshmongers." The Delectable Negro helps us process modern events like convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the rape and murder of Dione Payne, and "black man cookies." #AnswersForMiriamCarey INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943#