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This book is a compilation of contemporary and previously unpublished scholarship on Black sexualities. The sixteen essays work to untangle the complex mechanisms of dominance and subordination as they are attached to political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic lenses that assess sexuality as it intersects with race. Some of the essays trace the historical and contemporary markets for sexual labor and systems of erotic capital. Other essays illuminate how forces of commodification, exploitation, and appropriation, which render black sexualities both desirable and dev ... More
Keywords: black sexual genealogies, sexual economy, black sexuality and eroticism in film, art, literature, music, television, digital/online technologies, black bodies and aesthetics, queer of color critique
Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252042645 |
Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: May 2020 | DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252042645.001.0001 |
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