1st Edition

Race and Masculinity in Gay Men’s Pornography Deconstructing the Big Black Beast

By Desmond Francis Goss Copyright 2022
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This book unpacks the character of pornographic representations of queer Black masculinity and how these representations vary between corporate and noncorporate producers. The author argues that representations of Black men in gay porn rely on stereotypes of Black masculinity to arouse consumers, especially those which characterize Black men as "missing links" or focus excessively on their "dark... Read more

1. Unpacking Porn: Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity

2. The Insolubility of Black and Queer

3. Porn, Past and Present

4. Identity, Power, and Performativity

5. Procedures and Analyses

6. Dark Phalluses: Preoccupation and Dismemberment

7. Missing Links: Primitiveness and Primality

8. Separate Spaces: Bifurcation and Essentialism

9. Can the Subaltern Fuck?

Biography

Desmond Francis Goss earned a BA in Psychology, an MA in Public Sociology, and a PhD in Sociology from Georgia State University in 2017, where he is now a Lecturer and Founding Director of the Social Justice Certificate Program. He is a theory-driven qualitative scholar, whose research and teaching involves critical analyses of identity, lived experience, and power, at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality. His work is published in the edited volumes Sex Matters (2018) and Focus on Social Problems (2016/2017).