Black Sexual Politics African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

Name: Black Sexual Politics African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
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ISBN: 9780415951500

ISBN-10: 041595150X

ISBN-13: 9780415951500

Edition: 2004

Authors: Patricia Hill Collins

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Caricatures of Black sexuality saturate American popular culture in bootylicious rap videos and paternity tests on the Jerry Springer show. Blacks have been cast as hypersexual animals in Western culture since a scantily clad "Hottentot Venus" was displayed in a cage in Paris in the 1800s. InBlack Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today. The ideal of pure white womanhood, Collins argues, required the invention of hot-blooded Latinas, exotic Suzy Wongs, and wanton jezebels--images that persist in…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.21" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: No Turning Back



African Americans and the New Racism



Why Black Sexual Politics?



The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism



Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality



Rethinking Black Gender Ideology



Get Your Freak On: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity



Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity



Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Ideology



Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics



Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence



No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender Matter



Why We Can't Wait: Black Sexual Politics and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS


Afterword: The Power of a Free Mind


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index