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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Greg, 1969-

Series:

Blacks in the Diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Social conditions.

Black people.

Sex role.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Sex role--United States.

Race relations.

White supremacy movements.

Imperialism.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 sexuality in the West.

Contents:

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 andCounter-insurgent Critiques of Sexism and HomophobiaConclusion; Notes; References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-194) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07851-8

9786612078514

0-253-11707-0

OCLC:

476155587