Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
- ISBN-10
- 0415930995
- ISBN-13
- 9780415930994
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Patricia Hill Collins
Description
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. 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. A revolutionary work that touches the intimate and public lives of all African Americans, Black Sexual Politicsbrilliantly illuminates the subtle interplay of race, sex, and politics in American culture today. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2004-08-02
- 384 pages
- Ebook
- Routledge
Similar books
-
Protesting Little Sister: Black Women's Sexual Politics, 1940-1953
By Ayesha Ki'Shani HardisonExamining four icons of black womanhood---the predatory woman in Ann Petry's The Street (1941) and Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy (1948), the minstrel in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on...
-
Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter
By Rajen Persaud-Media: How movies and television keep black men running to white women. Why Black Men Love White Women will help you understand the relationship phenomenon of our times.
-
The Sexual Politics of Black Churches
By Josef SorettThis book brings together an interdisciplinary roster of scholars and practitioners to analyze the politics of sexuality within Black churches and the communities they serve.
-
Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics
By Anthony J. LemelleThis book focuses on how African American males experience masculinity politics, and how U.S. sexism and racial ranking influences relationships between black and white males, as well as relationships with black and white women.
-
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
By Patricia Hill CollinsIn the tenth anniversary edition of this award-winning work, Patricia Hill Collins expands the basic arguments of the first edition by adding several important new themes.
-
Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music
By Eileen M. HayesDrawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation.
-
Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics
By Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.“Four 'Classic' Studies of Power Relationships in Black Families: A Review and Look to the Future.” Journal of Marriage and the Family November (1978): 691–94. Willie, Charles Vert. The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty: ...
-
Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
By Rosalind S. ChouMalcolm X and the Black Panther Party, on the other hand, are extremely vilified. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are portrayed as the appropriate role models for social change: nonviolence in the face of even the most ...
-
Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics
By N. Alexander-FloydAn examination of the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically within American politics as a whole.
-
Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology
By Margaret L. Andersen, Patricia Hill CollinsTimely and diverse, this collection of articles by various authors addresses important and often controversial topics, such as prison, affirmative action, Muslim life in America, and the working poor, to provide readers with many different ...