"James Smalls offers an original, provocative, thoughtful and necessary analysis of interracial homoerotic fetish and fantasy. His writing is well balanced and his argument considers how the images operate psychologically and socially during the historical moment of the Harlem Renaissance and during the present day. The book is an invaluable text in black studies, queer studies and the Harlem Renaissance."—Mark A. Reid, author of Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now
"I don't believe Smalls has left any important stones unturned in this study; I felt that the text was chock full of information and rich interconnections among its components."—Deborah Bright, Rhode Island School of Design