Black Sexualities

Juan Battle is a professor of sociology and public health at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the coeditor of Free at Last?: Black America in the Twenty-first Century.Sandra L. Barnes is a joint appointed professor in the department of human and organizational development sociology and the divinity school at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana.

• Identity Theories and New FrameworksNontraditional, Nonconforming, and Transgressive Gender Expression and Relationship Modalities in Black CommunitiesCreation Out of BoundsOn the Fear of Small NumbersBlackness, Sexuality, and Transnational DesirePart IIPathologizing Black SexualityDangerous ProfilingRevisiting Black Sexualities in FamiliesTo Be Fluent in Each Other's NarrativesPart IIIPrison, Crime, and Sexual Health in the United StatesBlack and Latino Same-Sex Couple Households and the Racial Dynamics of Antigay ActivismRacialized Justice Spreads HIV/AIDS among BlacksBlack Sexual CitizenshipPart IVBlacks and Racial AppraisalsWhen Secrets HurtBlack Female Sex WorkersYes, Jesus Loves Me-A Case StudyPart V Black Mother-Daughter Narratives about SexualityBlack Youth Sexuality"I'll Be Forever Mackin'"Black Senior Women and SexualityEpilogue

"Two groundbreaking, indispensable guides for serious scholars of sexualities who wish to understand both the heterogeneous sexualities of African Americans and Latinos as well as how greater attention to race, ethnicity, class and culture provides important new directions for the field." - Patricia Hill Collins (author of Black Sexual Politics) "Filled with provocative arguments and illuminating insights, Black Sexualities marks a new and exciting epoch in the study of human sexuality and its interactions with race and class; a must-read for scholars and students of ethnic studies and human sexuality." - Rafael Díaz (Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco State University) "A path breaking contribution and the definite resource for interdisciplinary scholars in the growing field of Black sexualities. A highly sophisticated intervention that fills the existing void of empirical research in this area, while drawing from and critically engaging with the social and behavioral science literature. This volume will forever challenge us to rethink the categories, methods and approaches scholars use in this rapidly developing field of study." - Arlene Dávila (author of Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race) "Excellent for courses in black, Latino/a, women's, and LGBT studies, and sociology. Highly recommended." (Choice)