Black Genders and Sexualities [[electronic resource] /] / edited by S. McGlotten, D. Davis

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2012.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3
• Soggetto topico: Sociology; Ethnicity; Social justice; Human rights; Gender Studies; Ethnicity Studies; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights
• Persona (resp. second.): McGlottenS; DavisD
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Black Genders and Sexualities""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""References""; ""Chapter 1: Trapped in the Epistemological Closet: Black Sexuality and the Ghettocentric Imagination""; ""Reading Closet Drama""; ""Structuring the Closet (Spoiler Alert!)""; ""The Double Lives of R. Kelly""; ""A Ghetto Love Is the Law That We Live By""; ""Trapped in the Epistemological Closet""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2: Craig Brewer and Kara Walker: Sexing the Difference and Rebuilding the South""; ""Developing a Blues Sensibility"" ; ""Policing the Black Woman's Body""""I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance""; ""A Requiem for the Black Male Figure?""; ""Works Cited""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3: Race, Sexuality, and the Media: The Demotion of Portland's Black Chief of Police""; ""Introduction""; ""Setting the Stage""; ""The Politics of Black Sexuality, the New Racism, and the Black Press""; ""Methods""; ""The Oregonian: Foxworth the Freak""; ""The Black Press""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 4: Love, Ambition, and Invisible Footnotes in the Life and Writing of Pauli Murray"" ; ""Notes""""Chapter 5: Thugs, Black Divas, and Gendered Aspirations""; ""The Fresh Start Shelter""; ""Discourses of Young Black Womanhood""; ""Divas""; ""The Replicating Researcher""; ""Amber""; ""(Re)Doing Gender in the Context of Work and Family""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 6 Grupo OREMI: Black Lesbians and the Struggle for Safe Social Space in Havana""; ""Notes on Sexuality in Post- 1959 Cuba""; ""Contextualizing Race and Gender in a Cuban Context""; ""Living as a Black Woman in Cuba's Lesbian Scene""; ""Mujeres Unidas/Women United: El Proyecto Grupo OREMI"" ; ""Challenging Machismo, Homophobia, and Lesbian Isolation""""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 7: Sexual Tourism and Social Panics: Research and Intervention in Rio de Janeiro""; ""References""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 8: Translating (Black) Queerness: Unpacking the Conceptual Linkages between Racialized Masculinities, Consensual Sex, and the Practice of Torture""; ""Ring of Fire: Audience-as-Market and the Problem of Difference""; ""The Closet Metaphor as a Limiting Paradigm""; ""Unearthing the Truth about Griffith's (Black Male) Sexuality"" ; ""Is Simulated Gay Sex Gay Is it Even Sex? The Risk of Translation""""Notes""; ""Chapter 9: So High You Can't Get Over It, So Low You Can't Get Under It?: Carceral Spatiality and Black Masculinities in the United States and South Africa""; ""Robert Taylor Homes, Apex of Carceral Mise- en- Scene""; ""Mining Compounds: Prisonizing Black Labor""; ""Space and the Subject: Carceral Circularity and Performances of Prison Masculinity""; ""Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Works Cited""; ""Notes"" ; ""Chapter 10: Can You Be BLACK and Work Here?: Social Justice Activist Organizing and BLACK Aurality""
• Sommario/riassunto: Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural experiences as shaped by gender and sex.
• Titolo autorizzato: Black Genders and Sexualities
• ISBN: 1-4039-7775-5; 1-137-07795-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790682003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Black Studies