The sexual demon of colonial power [[electronic resource] ] : Pan-African embodiment and erotic schemes of empire / / Greg Thomas
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| Autore: |
Thomas Greg <1969->
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| Titolo: |
The sexual demon of colonial power [[electronic resource] ] : Pan-African embodiment and erotic schemes of empire / / Greg Thomas
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896 |
| Soggetto topico: | Black people - Social conditions |
| Sex role | |
| African Americans - Social conditions | |
| Sex role - United States | |
| Race relations | |
| White supremacy movements | |
| Imperialism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-194) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Pan-Africanism or Sexual Imperialism: White Supremacy,Hellenomania, and Discourses of Sexuality; 2. The Madness of Gender in Plantation America: Sex,Womanhood, and U.S. Chattel Slavery, Revisited; 3. Sexual Imitation and the Lumpen-Bourgeoisie: Race and Class asErotic Con®ict in E. Franklin Frazier; 4. Sexual Imitation and the "Greedy Little Caste": Race and Class asErotic Con®ict in Frantz Fanon; 5. Colonialism and Erotic Desire—in English: The Case of JamaicaKincaid |
| 6. Neo-colonial Canons of Gender and Sexuality, afterCOINTELPRO: Black Power Bodies/Black Popular Culture andCounter-insurgent Critiques of Sexism and HomophobiaConclusion; Notes; References; Index; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. This book interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. It connects sex and eroticism to geopolitics to examine the logic, operations, and politics of sexuality in the West. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sexual demon of colonial power |
| ISBN: | 1-282-07851-8 |
| 9786612078514 | |
| 0-253-11707-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781928803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Blacks in the Diaspora