The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture Binding:Paperback With helpful plant identification photos

With helpful plant identification photos throughout

unexpected ways--often unsettling

celebrating how food brings community and festivity

With an unflinching eye for the contradictions between what these characters profess to believe and what they do

and mourning your old ideas about what a body "should" look like

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture Binding:Paperback With helpful plant identification photosWinner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human