Works Cited on Sexuality

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Asante, Molefi Kete. 1980. Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change. Buffalo, NY Amulefi.

Baldwin, James. (1956) 2001. Giovanni’s Room. New York: Modern Library.

Baldwin, James. (1962) 1993. Another Country. New York: Vintage Books.

Brody, Jennifer DeVere, and Dwight A. McBride. 2000. “Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies: Introduction.” Callaloo 23 (1): 286-88.

Burgett, Bruce. 2007. “Sex.” In Keywords for American Cultural Studies, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 217-20. New York: NYU Press.

Carby, Hazel V. 1987. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press.

Christian, Barbara. 1980. Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Clarke, Cheryl. 1983. “The Failure to Transform.” In Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, 190-202. New York: Kitchen Table-Women of Color Press.

Cohen, Cathy J. 2004. “Deviance as Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 1 (1): 27-45.

Du Bois, W. 1920. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe.

Ellison, Ralph. (1947) 1995. Invisible Man. New York: Vintage International.

Ferguson, Roderick. 2004. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Ferguson, Roderick. 2005. “Of Our Normative Strivings: African American Studies and the Histories of Sexuality.” Social Text 84 (85): 85-100.

Foucault, Michel. 1978. The History of Sexuality: Volume One. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books.

Foucault, Michel. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972/1977. New York: Pantheon.

Gilman, Sander L. 1985. “Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature.” Critical Inquiry 12 (1): 204-42.

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. (1892) 1988. Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hine, Darlene Clark. 1989. “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (4): 912-20.

Hopkins, Pauline E. (1899) 1969. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. Miami, FL: Mnemo.

Jacobs, Harriet A. (1861) 1988. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, E. Patrick, and Mae Henderson, eds. 2005. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Jones, Gayl. (1975) 1986. Corregidora. Boston: Beacon.

Jones, Gayl. (1976) 1987. Eva’s Man. Boston: Beacon.

Lorde, Audre. 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing.

Matory, James Lorand. 2005. Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion. New York: Berghahn Books.

Mohammed, Abdul Jan. 1992. “Sexuality on/of the Racial Border.” In Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS, edited by Domna C. Stanton, 94-117. Institute for the Humanities; Ratio. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

Morrison, Toni. (1970) 2007. The Bluest Eye. New York: Vintage International.

Moynihan, Daniel P. 1965. The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. Washington, DC: Office of Policy Planning and Research, U.S. Department of Labor.

Patton, Stacey. 2012. “Who’s Afraid of Black Sexuality?” Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 December.

Phil Donahue Show. 1980. “Alvin Poussaint Talks about the Macho Myth Adopted by Black Men and the Frequent Resentment of Black Women.” 5 January.

Reid-Pharr, Robert. 2001. Black Gay Man: Essays. New York: NYU Press.

Shange, Ntozake. 1992. “Fore/Play.” In Erotique Noire: Black Erotica, edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, and Roseann P. Bell, xix-xx. New York: Doubleday.

Somerville, Siobhan B. 2000. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Spillers, Hortense J. 1987. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Diacritics 17 (2): 64-81. www.jstor.org.

Staples, Robert. 1971. The Black Family: Essays and Studies. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Staples, Robert. 1973. The Black Woman in America: Sex, Marriage, and the Family. Chicago: NelHall.

Sweet, James H. 1996. “Male Homosexuality and Spiritism in the African Diaspora: The Legacies of a Link.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 7 (2): 184-202.

Wekker, Gloria. 2006. The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora. New York: Columbia University Press.