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Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital

edited by Adrienne D. Davis and Adrienne D. BSE Collective
contributions by David B. Green, Jr., Jillian Hernandez, Cheryl D. Hicks, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune, Mireille Miller-Young, Angelique Nixon, Shana L Redmond, Matt Richardson, L.H. Stallings, Anya M. Wallace, Erica Lorraine Williams, Marlon M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz, Adrienne D. Davis and Pierre Dominguez

University of Illinois Press, 2019
Paper: 978-0-252-08448-5 | Cloth: 978-0-252-04264-5 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05149-4
Library of Congress Classification E185.86
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896073

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the energies at the nexus of sexuality and race. Contributors: Marlon M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz, Adrienne D. Davis, Pierre Dominguez, David B. Green Jr., Jillian Hernandez, Cheryl D. Hicks, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune, Mireille Miller-Young, Angelique Nixon, Shana L. Redmond, Matt Richardson, L. H. Stallings, Anya M. Wallace, and Erica Lorraine Williams

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Adrienne D. Davis is William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and Vice Provost at Washington University in St. Louis. The Black Sexual Economies (BSE) Collective is a working group of scholars that includes: Marlon M. Bailey, Felice Blake, Davis, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune Jr., Mireille Miller-Young, Matt Richardson, and L. H. Stallings.

REVIEWS

"Black Sexual Economies is the first anthology of its kind to mine the deeply rooted vestiges of late capitalism as they relate to black sexuality. Through analyses of slavery, pornography, popular culture, and music, among other topics, each essay in this carefully curated volume enlivens anew our attention to the stakes of theorizing black sexuality—the fact that we can never think about black sexuality without always thinking about the political economic conditions of its making. Indeed, Black Sexual Economies is a welcomed breath of fresh air to the now well-established field of black sexuality studies."--E. Patrick Johnson, editor of No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies

"To represent, to affirm, to understand, and to live black sexualities can be immeasurably difficult. The very foundations of politics, social life—and, as this volume argues, capitalist economies—in the modern world often hinge on pathologizing black people’s sexuality in order to exploit and to destroy black bodies and black lives. Black feminist innovator Adrienne Davis curates here essays that batter down and deftly navigate the thicket of lies that try to render 'black sexuality' unspeakable and unknowable, and point the way forward."--Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title

Contents

Acknowledgments

Black Sexual Economies: An Introduction The BSE Collective

Part I. Sexual Labor and Race Play

1 “Don’t Let Nobody Bother Yo’ Principle”: The Sexual Economy of American Slavery Adrienne D. Davis

2 Black Stud, White Desire: Black Masculinity in Cuckold Pornography and Sex Work Mireille Miller-Y

3 “Hannah Elias Talks Freely”: Interracial Sex and Black Female Subjectivity in Turn-of-the-Century

4 Playin’ Race: Race Play, Black Women, and BDSM Ariane Cruz

Part II. Sexual Economies of Sexual Publics

5 No Bodily Rights Worth Protecting: Transnational Circulations of Black Hypersexuality in Brazil E

6 “Will the Real Men Stand Up?”: Regulating Gender and Policing Sexuality through Black Common Sense

7 “Happy at Last”: Carving the White “Closet” Past, Creating an “Out” Future Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.

Part III. The Drag of Cultural Dissemblance

8 Gospel Drag: Intimate Labor and the Blues Stage Shana L. Redmond

9 Branded Beautiful: Brand Rihanna Meets Brand Barbados Lia T. Bascomb

10 Framing the Video Vixen: Intraracial Readings of Unruly Desire Felice Blake

Part IV. Beyond Black Social Life as Death: The Erotics of Black Lives

11 In the Life: Queering Violence in the Stories of G. Winston James Darius Bost

12 The Dramedy in Queer of Color: Noah’s Arc and the Seriously “Trashy” Pleasure of Critique Pier Do

13 Cheryl Clarke’s Clit Agency, or, An Erotic Reading of Living as a Lesbian David B. Green Jr.

Part V. Imagine: Pedagogy, Black Feminist Arts, and Creative Methodologies

14 On Being a Black Sexual Intellectual: Thoughts on Caribbean Sexual Politics and Freedom Angeliqu

15 The Book of Joy: A Creative Archive of Young Queer Black Women’s Pleasures Anya M. Wallace and J

16 The Mist and the Rain: A Trickster Tale L. H. Stallings

References

Contributors

Index

Editing

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