..., it explores how different groups of women approached femininity, feminism, motherhood, marriage, and sexuality, and examines their historical and contemporary ability to work across race, class, gender, and sexuality. It explores how African Americans navigated post-blackness, and how lesbians, gays...

...This chapter examines the Million Man and Million Woman marches and shows that African Americans marched more for unity than in unity. The rights movements of the 60s and 70s changed black Americans’ sense of themselves as a nation within a nation. Intraracial violence, individualism, and class...

...This book explores the intersection of race, gender, sex, and geography in Chicago. It examines the relationship between people and place, as well as the geographic lessons Black Chicagoans learned during the twentieth century and the role housing and architecture, politicians and police played...

... an eroticized blackness and commodifying the Afro-Brazilian culture in order to sell Bahia to foreign travelers. The book combines historical, sociological, anthropological, cultural studies, and feminist perspectives to demonstrate how sexism, racism, and socioeconomic inequality interact in the context...

...This chapter explores how the CBS family sitcom Good Times turned into an important site of contestation and struggle over questions of “blackness,” the black family, “authenticity,” and black-versus-white control in the immediate aftermath of the civil rights movement...

... upon certain histories and cultural memories. Here, masculinity as well as racial performance—of blackness and of whiteness—are interrogated in the context of one of the most commercially and culturally important musical styles of the last quarter century. African American music American culture...

... depicted Africans as captives and slaves and as monstrous half-men, half-beasts. By the European Middle Ages, however, as Christianity swept Europe, ancient fables about frightening creatures of one sort or another in the subcontinent gained new symbolic weight: blackness became increasingly associated...

... radical in its visions for the future and deeply connected to the historical legacies of blackness. blacks communication activity design Iyapo Repository New York City Okunseinde Ayodamola Afrofuturism black futures Black Panther Brooks Lonny J Avi capitalists corporations cultural changes...

...This chapter focuses on the reception of two African American “post-soul” novels that deconstruct essentialist ideas about race. Inviting readers to reconsider binary understandings of blackness and whiteness, Edward P. Jones's The Known World (2003) focuses on free blacks who own...

... studios also adopted the catchphrase. The press often used the term to indicate a recording process, a musical brand, and also a particular “sound,” albeit one that is never clearly defined. The vast majority of tracks associated with the so-called Muscle Shoals sound were recorded by Black vocalists...

...Contending with racism, sexism, regionalism, and misogynoir—a distinct form of racialized misogyny directed towards Black women, girls, and femmes—Black women in the mainstream music industry face distinct barriers in becoming forces in the music industry. This chapter not only explores Beyoncé...

...This chapter examines how particular notions of sexuality, gender, and anti-Black animus coalesced in the formation of U.S. immigration policy in the 1980s and 1990s. The author offers a new interpretation of this period by examining the major policy shifts alongside influential but lesser-known...

... it is quite hard for a nation-state to divorce celebrity focused attention from an ideal national image. closet the sexual discretion Brokeback Mountain “down low” DL homonormativity queerness consumption deviance lesbian black queer subjectivity desire embodiment infidelity erotic marriage...

...This chapter explores the transnational circulation of notions of black hypersexuality in Brazil and beyond. It focuses on three sites of analysis that explore how cross-cultural perceptions of sexual difference are produced and perpetuated in the tourism industry. First, it examines Oswaldo...

...This chapter highlights the experiences of Black Bahamian women who attempted to enter Miami during the early twentieth century. It explores how single or unaccompanied Bahamian women were often excluded at the border as liable to become a “public charge.” They subverted the state’s assumptions...

... how entertainment programmers sought to represent a rapidly shifting consensus on what “blackness” and “whiteness” meant and how they now fit together....

...Mapping the rise of Black dolls—from the National Negro Doll Company and UNIA Doll Factory to Sara Lee Dolls—and intellectual debates via the Clark doll studies that spurred Black consumerism in the twentieth century, the Introduction, “The Making of Black Womanhood,” explains Black women’s role...

...This chapter discusses the politics of citizenship, blackness, and exclusion in Bahia, taking up the question of Afro-nationalism. It argues that black people confront visible and invisible human walls in their everyday attempts to access resources and dignity in the city, and these walls are often...

...This introductory chapter discusses the concept of “scripts of blackness” in Puerto Rico—that is, dominant narratives and stories that set standards, expectations, and even spatial templates for what is publicly recognized, celebrated, and sponsored as black and Puerto Rican. Racial scripts can...