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Black Men and Intimacy - Voices From Across the Diaspora

Author : Therez Fleetwood

Publisher :

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 25,57 MB

Release : 2020-08

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9780996832533

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There are countless books on men and relationships that analyze and interpret men's feelings about intimacy from a clinical or therapeutic approach. However, there are few books that actually highlight Black men's points of view on intimacy in a raw, impactful and inspiring way. Black Men and Intimacy - Voices From Across the Diaspora explores the complexities of relationships through the minds of men who give real, no-holds-barred answers to the questions all women want to ask about love, relationships, communication, sex, intimacy, and much more. Black Men and Intimacy - Voices From Across the Diaspora is not a theoretical analysis of Black men overall, nor is it written to stereotype or categorize Black men. This book is a compilation of personal one-on-one interviews with Black men sharing their opinions based on their own life experiences. Black Men and Intimacy; Voices From Across the Diaspora was written for Black women who truly desire to understand Black men better; Black men who are looking to find their voice of self expression; Parents raising Black boys; Moderators discussing Black men; Ministers, marriage counselors, therapists and people in other areas of social service that council Black men; Book Clubs who want to discuss Black men and relationships; Couples wanting to create/build more intimacy in their relationships; Any woman married to or dating a Black man.





The Mulatta Concubine

Author : Lisa Ze Winters

Publisher : University of Georgia Press

Page : 241 pages

File Size : 28,77 MB

Release : 2016-01-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0820348961

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Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure’s centrality to the practices and production of diaspora. Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers’ narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities.



Dangerous Intimacy

Author : Christopher A. Brooks

Publisher :

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 42,58 MB

Release : 2009

Category : HIV infections

ISBN : 9781607970392

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Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy

Author : Kyle D. Killian

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 35,76 MB

Release : 2013-10-15

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0231132956

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Grounded in the personal narratives of twenty interracial couples with multiracial children, this volume uniquely explores interracial couples’ encounters with racism and discrimination, partner difference, family identity, and counseling and therapy. It intimately portrays how race, class, and gender shape relationship dynamics and a partner’s sense of belonging. Assessment tools and intervention techniques help professionals and scholars work effectively with multiracial families as they negotiate difference, resist familial and societal disapproval, and strive for increased intimacy. The book concludes with a discussion of interracial couples in cinema and literature, the sensationalization of multiracial relations in mass media, and how to further liberalize partner selection across racial borders.



Frottage

Author : Keguro Macharia

Publisher : NYU Press

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 15,47 MB

Release : 2019-11-19

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1479881147

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Winner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, Frottage questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. Between Frantz Fanon, René Maran, Jomo Kenyatta, and Claude McKay, Macharia moves through genres—psychoanalysis, fiction, anthropology, poetry—as well as regional geohistories across Africa and Afro-diaspora to map the centrality of sex, gender, desire, and eroticism to black freedom struggles. In lyrical, meditative prose, Macharia invigorates frottage as both metaphor and method with which to rethink diaspora by reading, and reading against, discomfort, vulnerability, and pleasure.



Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora

Author : Jana Evans Braziel

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 38,22 MB

Release : 2008-06-27

Category : Art

ISBN : 0253219787

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Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo nègs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrière, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dréd (a.k.a. Mildréd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora.



The Pursuit of Happiness

Author : Bianca C. Williams

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 45,19 MB

Release : 2018-02-08

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0822372134

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In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens. Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power differentials within the African diaspora.



Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

Author : Louis Chude-Sokei

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 41,54 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1328841588

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A gutting, gorgeous memoir of a pan-African childhood that tracks the author's migrations from the short-lived African nation known as Biafra, to Jamaica, to Los Angeles' harshest streets



The Afrocentric Bride

Author : Therez Fleetwood

Publisher : Amber Books Publishing

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 18,9 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9780972751919

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In this internationally acclaimed styling guide for brides of color, Fleetwood shares her secrets on how to create an Afrocentric gown by using fabrics imported from Africa, adorning it with cowrie shells, embroidering and quilting it with natural colors and fibers, as well as wearing one's favorite soft pastel shade or a wonderful vibrant red.