Enlists the principles of posthumanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh Robert ReidPharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and antiFascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid1950s ReidPharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism including American colleges and universities developed in intimate relation to slavery colonization and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully addressampamp8212or even fully recognizeampamp8212the deepseated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood.