A Taste for Brown Sugar

Mireille Miller-Young is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a coeditor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure.

Preface. Confessions of a Black Feminist Academic Photographer vii Acknowledgments viii Introduction. Brown Sugar: Theorizing Black Women's Sexual Labor in Photography 1 1. Sepia Sex Scenes: Spectacles of Difference in Race Porn 23 2. Sexy Soul Sisters: Black Women in the Golden Era 66 3. Black Chicks: Marketing Black Women in the Video Era 104 4. Ho Theory: Black Female Sexuality at the Convergence of Hip Hop and Pornography 142 5. (Black) Porn Star: Aspirations and Realities in Porn Work 180 6. Behind the Scenes: Confronting Disempowerment and Creating Change in Black Women's Porn Work 226 Epilogue. Behind the Camera: Black Women's Illicit Erotic Interventions 263 Notes 283 Bibliography 315 Index 355

"A Taste for Brown Sugar is a game changer, a courageous and bold book that shifts the discourse on the contested history of race and porn. Mireille Miller-Young's rigorous historical and ethnographic research disrupts the 'good versus bad' binary that has dogged debates about pornography for decades." "A Taste for Brown Sugar is a thorough and compelling look at a subject steeped in society's anxiety and imagination: black women in pornography. Mireille Miller-Young dives head first into a thorny topic with clear, nuanced thinking. This book tackles complicated issues of race, sex work, feminism, pleasure, and representation in a rigorous, thoughtful way. Finally: scholarship that centers black women's labor and ideas in both academia and the sex industries and gives crucial voice to underrepresented workers and feminist thinkers. Miller-Young's approach is intersectional, engaging, and, above all, accessible to scholars and a general readers alike. This book will enrage you, enlighten you, and make you rethink everything you know about race and sex."