"Don't let nobody bother yo' principle": the sexual economy of American slavery / Adrienne D. Davis -- Black stud, white desire: black masculinity in cuckold pornography and sex work / Mireille Miller-Young and Xavier Livermon -- "Hannah Elias talks freely": interracial sex and black female subjectivity in turn-of-the-century New York City / Cheryl D. Hicks -- Playin' race: race play, black women, and BDSM / Ariane Cruz -- No bodily rights worth protecting: transnational circulations of black hypersexuality in Brazil / Erica Lorraine Williams -- "Will the real men stand up?": regulating gender and policing sexuality through black common sense / Marlon M. Bailey and Matt Richardson -- "Happy at last": carving the white "closet" past, creating an "out" future / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. -- Gospel drag: intimate labor and the blues stage / Shana L. Redmond -- Branded beautiful: Brand Rihanna meets Brand Barbados / Lia T. Bascomb -- Framing the video vixen: intraracial readings of Unruly Desire / Felice Blake -- In the life: queering violence in the stories of G. Winston James / Darius Bost -- The Dramedy in queer of color: Noah's Arc and the seriously "trashy" pleasure of critique / Pier Dominguez -- Cheryl Clarke's clit agency, or, an erotic reading of Living as a Lesbian / David B. Green Jr. -- On being a black sexual intellectual: thoughts on Caribbean sexual politics and freedom / Angelique V. Nixon -- The book of joy: a creative archive of young queer black women's pleasures / Anya M. Wallace and Jillian Hernandez -- The mist and the rain: a trickster tale / L.H. Stallings.
Summary:
"A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the energies at the nexus of sexuality and race."-- Provided by publisher.
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