Dwight A. McBride is a leading voice in African American Studies. His work delves deeply into the complexities of identity, race, and culture within the American landscape. Through incisive analysis and a distinctive voice, he explores how these concepts are shaped by historical and societal forces. McBride's writings challenge readers to consider the nature and implications of racial identity and its impact on individual and collective experiences.
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.