Black sexual politics : African Americans, gender, and the new racism
Publisher's description: In Black 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 the media today in everything from animal-skin bikinis to the creation of the "welfare mom." Men confront a similar bias in a society that defines African American males as drug dealers, brutish athletes, irresponsible fathers, and rapists. Collins dissects the widespread impact of these distorted messages as she explores African American love relationships, sex in youth culture, interracial romance, sexual violence, and HIV/AIDS
ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm
9780415930994, 9780415931007, 9780203309506, 9780415951500, 0415930995, 0415931002, 0203309502, 041595150X
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Introduction: no turning back
I. 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
II. 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
III. 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
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