Patricia Hill Collins

Black Sexual Politics (eBook, ePUB)

African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135955373
• Artikelnr.: 47893647

Autorenporträt

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland. She is author of Black Feminist Thought, which won the C. Wright Mills Award of the American Sociological Association, as well as Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search forJustice. She lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: No Turning Back
I. African Americans and the New Racism
1. Why Black Sexual Politics?
2. The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism
3.Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and
Black Sexuality
II. Rethinking Black Gender Ideology
4. Get Your Freak On: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity
5. Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity
6. Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Ideology
III. Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics
7. Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence
8. No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender Matter
9. Why We Can't Wait: Black Sexual Politics and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS
Afterword: The Power of a Free Mind
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index