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Author Cruz, Ariane, author.

Title The color of kink : black women, BDSM, and pornography / Ariane Cruz
Published New York : New York University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Sexual cultures
Sexual cultures.
Contents 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
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bondage (Sexual behavior)
Sadomasochism.
Pornography.
Women, Black -- Sexual behavior
pornography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Bondage (Sexual behavior)
Pornography
Sadomasochism
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016017049
ISBN 9781479899425
1479899429