Black Sexual Politics

African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-95150-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill Collins, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: No Turning Back
I. African Americans and the New Racism
1. Why Black Sexual Politics?
2. The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism
3.Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality
II. Rethinking Black Gender Ideology
4. Get Your Freak On: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity
5. Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity
6. Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Ideology
III. Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics
7. Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence
8. No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender Matter
9. 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

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland. She is author of Black Feminist Thought, which won the C. Wright Mills Award of the American Sociological Association, as well as Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. She lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad.