Blackness and SexualitiesMichelle M. Wright, Antje Schuhmann How queer is Black studies, how racialized is queer studies? In the West, racial fantasies are often sexualized, just as sexual fantasies often rely on notions of a racial Other. Bringing together the latest work by some of the foremost scholars in a variety of disciplines, Blackness and Sexualities offers analyses and critiques that span three continents and looks at topics such as: the secret marketing of black female pornography to white American men; the eroticization of colonial legacies in contemporary German media; the exoticization of African women in previously unpublished photos and diaries by America's first best-selling black novelist; the ways in which film captures how drag queens can claim agency and cooperate with all kinds of sexual communities across racial lines-or fail to do so with terrible consequences. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The New Black Queer Theory | 29 |
Constructions of Gay Male Whiteness in Isaac Juliens Looking for Langston Melvin | 59 |
Drag Performance and Community Building in Cuba and the United States | 83 |
White on White via the Black Body Collecting Artefacts | 107 |
Modernity and the Rise of Cosmopolitan | 127 |
Black Women in 1980s Video Pornography | 143 |
Notes on Contributors | 165 |