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Acknowledgments
Black Sexual Economies: An Introduction The BSE Collective
Part I. Sexual Labor and Race Play
1 “Don’t Let Nobody Bother Yo’ Principle”: The Sexual Economy of American Slavery Adrienne D. Davis
2 Black Stud, White Desire: Black Masculinity in Cuckold Pornography and Sex Work Mireille Miller-Y
3 “Hannah Elias Talks Freely”: Interracial Sex and Black Female Subjectivity in Turn-of-the-Century
4 Playin’ Race: Race Play, Black Women, and BDSM Ariane Cruz
Part II. Sexual Economies of Sexual Publics
5 No Bodily Rights Worth Protecting: Transnational Circulations of Black Hypersexuality in Brazil E
6 “Will the Real Men Stand Up?”: Regulating Gender and Policing Sexuality through Black Common Sense
7 “Happy at Last”: Carving the White “Closet” Past, Creating an “Out” Future Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.
Part III. The Drag of Cultural Dissemblance
8 Gospel Drag: Intimate Labor and the Blues Stage Shana L. Redmond
9 Branded Beautiful: Brand Rihanna Meets Brand Barbados Lia T. Bascomb
10 Framing the Video Vixen: Intraracial Readings of Unruly Desire Felice Blake
Part IV. Beyond Black Social Life as Death: The Erotics of Black Lives
11 In the Life: Queering Violence in the Stories of G. Winston James Darius Bost
12 The Dramedy in Queer of Color: Noah’s Arc and the Seriously “Trashy” Pleasure of Critique Pier Do
13 Cheryl Clarke’s Clit Agency, or, An Erotic Reading of Living as a Lesbian David B. Green Jr.
Part V. Imagine: Pedagogy, Black Feminist Arts, and Creative Methodologies
14 On Being a Black Sexual Intellectual: Thoughts on Caribbean Sexual Politics and Freedom Angeliqu
15 The Book of Joy: A Creative Archive of Young Queer Black Women’s Pleasures Anya M. Wallace and J
16 The Mist and the Rain: A Trickster Tale L. H. Stallings
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