This book offers a unique understanding of African American populations and their articulation of sexuality and race by introducing a comprehensive sexological model, Black Sexual Epistemology. Tracie Q. Gilbert draws from theoretical perspectives of anti-Blackness, ethno-sexuality, Performative Blackness and African-centered epistemology to implicate race as an inextricable factor in the sexual structures and schema of African American people. Chapters identify and introduce a sex-positive and comprehensive sexological model through which Black sexuality can be understood and navigated in the contemporary era.
Key Features
- Introduction of Black Sexual Epistemology as a comprehensive sexological model.
- Incorporation of theoretical perspectives on anti-Blackness and ethno-sexuality.
- Empirical data for applying critical race perspectives.
- Focus on community development and healing through understanding Black sexual experience.
Additional Information
This book is essential reading for practicing sex therapists, marriage and family therapists and clinical social workers working with these populations as well as for academics and students of sexology, sex education, sex therapy, social work, marriage and family therapy, public health, Black/African American studies and LGBTQ studies. It will also be of interest to general audiences who appreciate culturally centered sexological scholarship.
