Color of Kink - Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography Cruz ArianePaperback
Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ StudiesHow BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and…
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Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ StudiesHow BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. 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
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