Exploring Black Sexuality
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- 2006
Summary
In this pioneering, nonobjective study, a distinguished Black sexologist tackles one of the most controversial aspects of American race relations. The subject of Black sexuality has been widely discussed in every possible popular format for the past four hundred years, yet serious scholarship in the area is lacking. While Black sexuality has been a pervasive force in American life, it has been too sensitive a topic for Black or white authors to write about in a serious, non-polemical format. Robert Staples explores same-sex attitudes and behavior, interracial sexual relations, rape, prostitution, pornography, and the stereotypes of Black sexual superiority in this scholarly yet accessible collection. Staples shows how vaunted and feared sexual differences were the 'raison d'etre' of Southern school segregation, race-based laws, white flight from the inner cities, the double sexual standard, lynchings, and race riots. This groundbreaking study concludes with a speculation on the future of Black sexuality in the 21st century based on our knowledge of current demographic and economic forces.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2006
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7425-4658-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7425-7945-3
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 209
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter 1 Sexuality on the Dark Continent No access Pages 1 - 16
- Chapter 2 The Myth of Black Sexual Superiority No access Pages 17 - 36
- Chapter 3 Images and Beliefs in Popular Culture No access Pages 37 - 54
- Chapter 4 Queer and Black in America No access Pages 55 - 78
- Chapter 5 Dating as a Sexual Adventure No access Pages 79 - 98
- Chapter 6 Sexual Theft and Other Crimes No access Pages 99 - 120
- Chapter 7 When Races Copulate No access Pages 121 - 140
- Chapter 8 Sexuality of the Rich and Famous No access Pages 141 - 156
- Chapter 9 Prostitutes, Pimps, and Pornography No access Pages 157 - 174
- Chapter 10 Black Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century No access Pages 175 - 188
- Conclusion No access Pages 189 - 202
- Index No access Pages 203 - 208
- About the Author No access Pages 209 - 209





