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

• Autore: Hill Collins Patricia
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.7/089/96073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Black sexual politics
• ISBN: 1-135-95537-9; 1-135-95538-7; 1-280-04800-X; 0-203-30950-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827716903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II