El professor Robert Reid-Pharr, director de l'Institut de Recerca sobre la Diàspora Africana a les Amèriques i el Carib (IRADAC), explora les noves perspectives dels estudis ètnics i de masculinitat, qüestionant, des d'una perspectiva estranya, el que significa ser home, negre i gai en una societat racista postmoderna i heterosexual. Reid-Pharr és l'autor de Black, Gay, Man: Essays (2001); i One Goes Black: Choice, Desire i Black American Intellectual (2007).

Professor Robert Reid-Pharr, director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC), explores the new perspectives of ethnic and masculinity studies, problematizing, from a queer perspective, what it means to be male, black and gay in a racist post-modern and heterosexual society. Reid-Pharr is the author of Black, Gay, Man: Essays (2001); and Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (2007).