Black sexual politics
Subtitle: African Americans, gender, and the new racism
By: Patricia Hill Collins.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: 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.; United States -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Contents: Introduction: no turning back; value: I. African Americans and the new racism; value: Why black sexual politics?; value: The past is ever present: recognizing the new racism; value: Prisons for our bodies, closets for our minds: racism, heterosexism, and black sexuality; value: II. Rethinking black gender ideology; value: Get your freak on: sex, babies, and images of black femininity; value: Booty call: sex, violence, and images of black masculinity; value: Very necessary: redefining black gender ideology; value: III. Toward a progressiveblack sexual politics; value: Assume the position: the changing contours of sexual violence; value: No storybook romance: how race and gender matter; value: Why we can't wait: black sexual politics and the challenge of HIV/AIDS; value: Afterword: the power of a free mind.