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The sexual demon of colonial power : Pan-African embodiment and erotic schemes of empire /

A political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. This book interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. It connects sex and eroticism to geopolitics to examine the logic, operations, and politics of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Greg, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Pan-Africanism or Sexual Imperialism: White Supremacy, Hellenomania, and Discourses of Sexuality; 2. The Madness of Gender in Plantation America: Sex, Womanhood, and U.S. Chattel Slavery, Revisited; 3. Sexual Imitation and the Lumpen-Bourgeoisie: Race and Class asErotic Con®ict in E. Franklin Frazier; 4. Sexual Imitation and the "Greedy Little Caste": Race and Class asErotic Con®ict in Frantz Fanon; 5. Colonialism and Erotic Desire--in English: The Case of JamaicaKincaid.
  • 6. Neo-colonial Canons of Gender and Sexuality, afterCOINTELPRO: Black Power Bodies/Black Popular Culture and Counter-insurgent Critiques of Sexism and HomophobiaConclusion; Notes; References; Index.