SOURCE: "Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Homosexuality, Abjection and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity," in Studies in the Novel, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, Fall, 1996, pp. 372-94.
[In the following excerpt, Reid-Pharr analyzes several homosocial incidents in Soul on Ice as evidence of Cleaver's unsuccessful attempt to define a universal black masculine identity.]
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