Black Sexual Politics

In this groundbreaking book, one of the foremost writers on race and gender brilliantly maps the complex intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary American society. Patricia Hill Collins explores how the construction of stereotypical images - from the "welfare mom" to the "brutish athlete" and "irresponsible father" - perpetuate a new form of racism that continues to oppress African Americans. With remarkable insight, she deftly dissects how these distorted representations impact love relationships, youth culture and sexuality, Interracial romance, sexual violence and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Black communities. Above all, Collins make a clarion call for the Black community to address the voices of women and LGBTQ+ individuals, otherwise, without which the Black community will never be able to address its liberal progressive agenda.

A tour de force of writing about sex, gender, race and much more besides, the message of Black Sexual Politics is one that resonates today as upon the book's first publication.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA. She is the author of over ten books, including her award-winning classics Black Feminist Thought and Black Sexual Politics. Professor Collins has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Brazil. She was the 2009 President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the first African-American woman elected to this position in the organization's 104-year history. Professor Collins has won numerous professional awards, among them the William E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from ASA (2017), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Black Sociologists (2018), the Alumni Award from Brandeis University (2021), the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service for Sociology (2021), and the Berggruen Prize in Philosophy and Culture (2023).

• Publisher: Routledge
  
• Publish Date: October 09, 2026
  
• Pages: 400
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Paperback
  
• EAN/UPC: 9781041227045
  
• Dimensions: 8.5 in H | 5.4 in W
  
• BISAC Categories: Politics