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| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | African-American culture |
| Genre | Critical theory |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 9780415951500 |
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins is a work of critical theory that discusses the way that race, class and gender intersect to affect the lives of African American men and women in many different ways, but with similar results. The book explores the way that new forms of racism can work to oppress black people, while filling them with messages of liberation.
Black Sexual Politics also examines the way a narrow sexual politics based on American ideas/ideals of masculinity, femininity and the appropriate expression of sexuality work to repress gay and hetero, male and female. Collins' work also proposes a liberatory politics for black Americans, centered on honest dialogue about the way stereotypical imagery and limiting racist and sexist ideology have harmed African Americans in the past, and how African Americans might progress beyond these ideas and their manifestations to become active change agents in their own communities.
Chapters
- Chapter 1: Why Black Sexual Politics
- Chapter 2: The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism
- Chapter 3: Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism and Black Sexuality
- Chapter 4: Get Your Freak On: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity
- Chapter 5: Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity
- Chapter 6: Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Ideology
- Chapter 7: Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence
- Chapter 8: No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender Matter
- Chapter 9: Why We Can't Wait: Black Sexual Politics and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS
Reviews
According to reviews of the book, Collins found importance in taking a deep analysis of sexuality and racism on a global level, using a collection of materials curating history, empirical research, cultural studies, and her keen awareness of social, cultural, and political affairs. She alludes to the stain that was left by racist practices of segregation and exclusion and its legacy pertaining to the evolution of the 21st century. In addition, she addresses the influence that increasing global wealth and power has on the imagining of both racialized and gendered bodies.
See also
References
- Collins, Patricia (2004). Black Sexual Politics. New York: Taylor and Francis. p. 384. ISBN 9781135955373.
- https://www.asanet.org/patricia-hill-collins/
- Hill Collins, Patricia. 2005. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism. Routledge
Further reading
- We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks
- Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality And Intimacy by Tricia Rose