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Author Miller-Young, Mireille, 1976- author.

Title A taste for brown sugar : black women in pornography / Mireille Miller-Young
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 368 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface: confessions of a black feminist academic pornographer -- Introduction: brown sugar: theorizing black women's sexual labor in pornography -- Sepia sex scenes : spectacles of difference in race porn -- Sexy soul sisters : black women in the golden era -- Black chicks : marketing black women in the video era -- Ho theory : black female sexuality at the convergence of hip-hop and pornography -- (Black) porn star : aspirations and realities in porn work -- Behind the scenes : confronting disempowerment and creating change in black women's porn work -- Epilogue: behind the camera: black women's illicit erotic interventions
Summary Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research on dozens of women who have worked in adult entertainment since the 1980s, A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pornographic films -- United States -- History and criticism
African American women in motion pictures.
African American motion picture actors and actresses.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
African American motion picture actors and actresses.
African American women in motion pictures.
Pornographic films.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822375913
0822375915