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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Collins, Patricia Hill

Titel

Black sexual politics: African Americans, gender, and the new racism

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

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Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Analyzes the ways in which relations of gender and sexuality in African American communities, reproduce and/or resist new forms of racism, from the perspective of critical social theory; some focus on portrayal of Black masculinity, femininity, and sexuality in the mass media. Contents: 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 security; 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; 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.