The Color of Kink
Subtitle: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781479827466
Description: "The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women. Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Cruz argues that BDSM is a productive space from which to consider the complexity and diverseness of black women's sexual practice and the mutability of black female sexuality. Illuminating the cross-pollination of black sexuality and BDSM, The Color of Kink makes a unique contribution to the growing scholarship on racialized sexuality" -- From the publisher.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xi; label: Introduction
title: Speaking the Unspeakable
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: The Dark Side of Desire: Racial-Sexual Alterity and the Play of Race
pagenum: 29; label: Chapter 2
title: Pornography's Play(ing) of Race
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter 3
title: Interracial Iterations and Internet In(ter)ventions
pagenum: 125; label: Chapter 4
title: Techno-Kink: Fucking Machines and Gendered, Racialized Technologies of Desire
pagenum: 169; label: Conclusion
title: Encore: A Note on Repetition
pagenum: 213; label: Notes
title: Notes
pagenum: 221; label: Bibliography
title: Bibliography
pagenum: 279; label: Index
title: Index
pagenum: 305; label: About the Author
title: About the Author
pagenum: 317