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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

In Black Sexual Politics, 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.

Subject
politicssociologyhistoryphilosophy
Genre
historical fictionLGBT
Themes
feminismracegenderafrican americansexuality
Setting
20th centuryUSAafrica
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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