Beyond the Black lady : sexuality and the new African American middle class /

The author explores the representation of black middle class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, drama, film, and popular culture, showing how these depictions reclaim black female agency and illustrate the difficulties black women confront in asserting sexual...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Lisa B., 1965-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press ©2009.
Series:New Black studies series.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.8618093
Table of Contents:
  • Spectacle of the respectable : Anita Hill and the problem of innocence
  • Staging Black female desire : the drama of race, class, and sexuality
  • Black ladies and Black magic women : independent film and Black sexuality
  • Narrating sexuality in contemporary African American autobiography
  • Sex, travel, and the single African American girl : Andrea Lee's Sarah Phillips.