Fifty Shades of Whiteness
Category: ENTERTAINMENT
Only Hollywood would turn sadomasochism, a complicated sexual performance, into a white college girl's extracurricular activity. And only whiteness would allow for the whipping to be seen as elective in a coming-of-age narrative rather than as unavoidable in the violent history of slavery.
By Jim Downs, ContributorHistorian and Author, 2015-02-19