Black Sexual Politics

<p>In <em>Black Sexual Politics</em>, 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.</p> <p>Acknowledgements<br>Introduction: No Turning Back<br>I. African Americans and the New Racism<br>1. Why Black Sexual Politics?<br>2. The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism<br>3.Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality<br>II. Rethinking Black Gender Ideology<br>4. Get Your Freak On: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity<br>5. Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity<br>6. Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Ideology<br>III. Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics<br>7. Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence<br>8. No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender Matter<br>9. Why We Can't Wait: Black Sexual Politics and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS<br>Afterword: The Power of a Free Mind<br>Notes<br>Glossary<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>