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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450387503321

Autore

Hill Collins Patricia

Titolo

Black sexual politics : African Americans, gender, and the new racism / / Patricia Hill Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-95538-7

1-280-04800-X

0-203-30950-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

306.7/089/96073

Soggetti

African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-

African American men

African American women

Sex role - United States

African Americans - Sexual behavior

African Americans - Race identity

Racism - United States

Sexism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-365) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.