Black Sexualities

by Battle, Juan; Barnes, Sandra L.

• ISBN13: 9780813546025
• ISBN10: 0813546028
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-20
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Why does society have difficulty discussing sexualities? Where does fear of Black sexualities emerge and how is it manifested? How can varied experiences of Black females and males who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), or straight help inform dialogue and academic inquiry?From questioning forces that have constrained sexual choices to examining how Blacks have forged healthy sexual identities in an oppressive environment,Black Sexualitiesacknowledges the diversity of the Black experience and the shared legacy of racism. Contributors seek resolution to Blacks’ understanding of their lives as sexual beings through stories of empowerment, healing, self-awareness, victories, and other historic and contemporary life-course panoramas and provide practical information to foster more culturally relative research, tolerance, and acceptance.

Author Biography

Juan Battle is a professor of sociology, public health, and urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the coeditor of Free at Last: Black America in the Twenty-first Century. Sandra L. Barnes is a professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Development and the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Identity Theories and New Frameworks	p. 13
Nontraditional, Nonconforming, and Transgressive Gender Expression and Relationship Modalities in Black Communities	p. 17
Creation Out of Bounds: Toward Wholistic Identity	p. 37
On the Fear of Small Numbers: A Twenty-first-Century Prolegomenon of the U.S. Black Transgender Experience	p. 57
Blackness, Sexuality, and Transnational Desire: Initial Notes toward a New Research Agenda	p. 82
Descriptions, Depictions, and Responses
Pathologizing Black Sexuality: The U.S. Experience	p. 101
Dangerous Profiling: Recent Media Representations of Black Male Sexuality	p. 119
Revisiting Black Sexualities in Families: Problems, Puzzles, and Prospects	p. 138
To Be Fluent in Each Other's Narratives: Surplus Populations and Queer of Color Activism	p. 155
Citizenship, Activism, and Legal Dynamics
Prison, Crime, Sexual Health in the United States: How the Criminal Justice Systems Contribute to Health Disparities in the Black Community	p. 173
Black Sexual Citizenship: Understanding the Impact of Political Issues on Those at the Margins of Race, Sexuality, Gender, and Class	p. 190
Racialized Justice Spreads HIV/AIDS among Blacks	p. 213
Black and Latino Same-Sex Couple Households and the Racial Dynamics of Antigay Activism	p. Sean Cahill
Negotiating Systemic and Personal Stresses	p. 269
Blacks and Racial Appraisals: Gender, Race, and Intraracial Rape	p. 273
When Secrets Hurt: HIV Disclosure and the Stress Paradigm	p. 299
Black Female Sex Workers: Racial Identity, Black Feminist Consciousness, and Acculturated Stress	p. 311
Yes, Jesus Loves Me: The Liberating Power of Spiritual Acceptance for Black Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, and Transgender Christians	p. 327
The Life Course	p. 353
Black Mother-Daughter Narratives about Sexuality: The Influence of Black Religious Symbolism on Attitudes and Behavior	p. 357
Black Youth Sexuality: Established Paradigms and New Approaches	p. 377
"I'll Be Forever Mackin'": The Social Construction of Black Masculine Identity in Hip Hop's Platinum Age	p. 401
Black Senior Women and Sexuality	p. Bette J. Dic
Epilogue: What's Next for the Study and Application of Black Sexualities?	p. 443
Notes on Contributors	p. 445
Index	p. 447
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