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Black sexual politics African Americans, gender, and the new racism
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Black sexual politics [electronic resource] : African Americans, gender, and the new racism / Patricia Hill Collins.
ISBN
0415930995 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Routledge, c2004.
Physical Description
ix, 374 p.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-365) and index.
Contents
Introduction: no turning back
I. African Americans and the new racism
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 sexuality
II. Rethinking black gender ideology
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
III. Toward a progressive black sexual politics
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
Afterword: the power of a free mind.
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