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

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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.

Genres: NonfictionFeminismRaceSociologyPoliticsSocial JusticeGenderSexualityTheoryAfrican American

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