The Color of Kink : Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography / Ariane Cruz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cruz, Ariane, Author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual Cultures ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bondage (Sexual behavior).

Pornography.

Women, Black--Sexual behavior.

Women, Black.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women. Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Cruz argues that BDSM is a productive space from which to consider the complexity and diverseness of black women's sexual practice and the mutability of black female sexuality. Illuminating the cross-pollination of black sexuality and BDSM, The Color of Kink makes a unique contribution to the growing scholarship on racialized sexuality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Speaking the Unspeakable

1. The Dark Side of Desire: Racial- Sexual Alterity and the Play of Race

2. Pornography’s Play(ing) of Race

3. Interracial Iterations and Internet In(ter)ventions

4. Techno- Kink: Fucking Machines and Gendered, Racialized Technologies of Desire

Conclusion: Encore: A Note on Repetition

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-9942-9

OCLC:

956508836