A Taste For Brown Sugar: Black Women In Pornography
by Mireille Miller-Young /
2014 / English / Kindle
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A Taste for Brown Sugar
A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of
black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on
Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her
interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult
entertainment industry since the 1980s. The women share their
thoughts about desire and eroticism, black women's sexuality and
representation, and ambition and the need to make ends meet.
Miller-Young documents their interventions into the complicated
history of black women's sexuality, looking at individual
choices, however small—a costume, a gesture, an improvised
line—as small acts of resistance, of what she calls "illicit
eroticism." Building on the work of other black feminist
theorists, and contributing to the field of sex work studies, she
seeks to expand discussion of black women's sexuality to include
their eroticism and desires, as well as their participation and
representation in the adult entertainment industry. Miller-Young
wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the
decisions they make, albeit often within material and industrial
constraints, recognized as their own.
boldly takes on representations of
black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on
Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her
interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult
entertainment industry since the 1980s. The women share their
thoughts about desire and eroticism, black women's sexuality and
representation, and ambition and the need to make ends meet.
Miller-Young documents their interventions into the complicated
history of black women's sexuality, looking at individual
choices, however small—a costume, a gesture, an improvised
line—as small acts of resistance, of what she calls "illicit
eroticism." Building on the work of other black feminist
theorists, and contributing to the field of sex work studies, she
seeks to expand discussion of black women's sexuality to include
their eroticism and desires, as well as their participation and
representation in the adult entertainment industry. Miller-Young
wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the
decisions they make, albeit often within material and industrial
constraints, recognized as their own.