The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power is a political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. Greg Thomas interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. By connecting sex and eroticism to geopolitics both politically and epistemologically, he examines the logic, operations, and politics of sexuality in the West. The book focuses on the centrality of race, class, and empire to Western realities of ''gender and sexuality'' and to problematic Western attempts to theorize gender and sexuality (or embodiment). Addressing a wide range of intellectual disciplines, it holds out the hope for an analysis freed from the domination of white, Western terms of reference.
Author(s): Greg Thomas
Series: Blacks in the Diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Commentary: 64162
Pages: 225
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
1. Pan-Africanism or Sexual Imperialism: White Supremacy,Hellenomania, and Discourses of Sexuality......Page 18
2. The Madness of Gender in Plantation America: Sex,Womanhood, and U.S. Chattel Slavery, Revisited......Page 41
3. Sexual Imitation and the Lumpen-Bourgeoisie: Race and Class asErotic Con®ict in E. Franklin Frazier......Page 68
4. Sexual Imitation and the “Greedy Little Caste”: Race and Class asErotic Con®ict in Frantz Fanon......Page 93
5. Colonialism and Erotic Desire—in English: The Case of JamaicaKincaid......Page 121
6. Neo-colonial Canons of Gender and Sexuality, afterCOINTELPRO: Black Power Bodies/Black Popular Culture andCounter-insurgent Critiques of Sexism and Homophobia......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 171
Notes......Page 178
References......Page 196
Index......Page 212
