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“Black Anality” considers the racial meanings produced in pornographic texts Jennifer C. Nash is Associate Professor of African American Studies and. cumscribe it and create the very impossibility of pleasure, in “Black Anality”. Jennifer Nash rewrites the figure of the ass for black cultural consumption. Nash, Jennifer C. a. “Black Anality.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and. Gay Studies 20 (4): – ———. b. The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race.

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Black Anality Jennifer C. Nash In her foundational article “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” Evelynn Hammonds analogizes black women’s sexuality to a “black hole,” a space that appears empty but is actually “dense and full.”1 If black female sexuality is a complex and “full” site, it requires critical Estimated Reading Time: 12 mins. “I am fundamentally committed to Black feminism as a theoretical and political project,” said Jennifer Nash, who joined the Duke faculty as Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality Feminist Studies this year. “That’s where my heart is.” By following that guiding star, Nash has created an acclaimed body of work that includes two award-winning books and a third book . Jennifer C. Nash's 5 research works with 94 citations and 1, reads, including: Unwidowing: Rachel Jeantel, Black Death, and the “Problem” of Black Intimacy.

“Black Anality” argues that “black” and “anal” are rendered ideologically, discursively, and representationally synonymous, and that black female flesh becomes the material space on which this convergence occurs. Drawing on an archive of online, widely accessible black pornographies, I develop the term black anality to describe how black pleasures are represented as peculiarly and. The book contains 20 essays on queer feminist topics, including one on “Black Anality,” by Northwestern University professor Jennifer Nash, another on “Pussy Ballistics” by UCLA Professor. “Black Anality” offers a new set of analytics for black feminist work on sexuality: spatiality, waste, toxicity, and filth. These analytics, I argue, allow black feminists to consider how black female sexuality is imagined to be rooted in (and perhaps generative of) certain kinds of filthy spaces, particularly the ghetto; how black.

Author: Jennifer C. Nash boldly pushes Black feminists to reflect critically on their own embrace of crisis rhetoric that casts Black maternal bodies as mere symbols of state violence marked by suffering, trauma, and grief. While powerfully arguing we risk reproducing Black mothers as problems in need of intervention and relying on low-wage Black birthworkers to save them, Nash points to ways we can theorize new forms of Black maternal freedom that refuse confinement to a marketed crisis frame. The difficult conversations that Jennifer C. This brilliant book is the most exciting piece of scholarship I have read this year.