Black Genders and Sexualities [electronic resource] /
McGlotten, S.editor.
Davis, D.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""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""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Ethnicity.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Gender Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.