Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
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In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.Library JournalIn a book of sophisticated critical theory that could be used as a tool for antiracist political action, Collins (Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Sociology, Univ. of Cincinnati; Black Feminist Thought) asserts that "racism and sexism are deeply intertwined, and racism can never be solved without seeing and challenging sexism." Thus, African Americans must examine how sexual politics within black communities either reproduce or resist forms of racism. Like Stuart Hall's Representation: Cultural Representations & Signifying Practices or Mark Anthony Neal's Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, this well-written text argues that images from popular culture shape ideas about black gender. For example, traditional stereotypes such as "the breeder woman" found in the slave-holding South have been reworked into the "welfare queen" of today's inner cities. Collins's razor-sharp analysis is unfortunately hampered by an exclusive focus on black/white social interactions, whereas contemporary American society is marked by multiculturalism. This is, however, an important work. Strongly recommend for public and academic libraries.-Katherine C. Adams, Bowdoin Coll., Brunswick, ME Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: No Turning Back1Pt. IAfrican Americans and the New Racism1Why Black Sexual Politics?252The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism533Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality87Pt. IIRethinking Black Gender Ideology4Get Your Freak On: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity1195Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity1496Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Ideology181Pt. IIIToward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics7Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence2158No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender Matter2479Why We Can't Wait: Black Sexual Politics and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS279Afterword: The Power of a Free Mind303Notes309Glossary349Bibliography353Index367
