“Will the Real Men Stand Up?”

M. Bailey, Matt Richardson
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Given the ways that the exercise of racism and the ideology of black inferiority have depended upon entrenched images of black hypersexuality, it may be unsurprising that representations of intracommunal sexual fetishization and performance obscure the presence of racism. Nonetheless, such representations can also lead us to misinterpret how racial subordination is inculcated, negotiated, and challenged within the black community. The many responses to Karrine Steffans, her book Confessions of a Video Vixen, and the new cultural figure she represents (the video vixen, model, ‘jump off’, ‘groupie’, or ‘ho’) reveal the multiple investments in the representation of black women, and by extension, black men and their sexualities. Blake argues that although dominant discourses would lay blame for the circulation of misogynist images at the doorstep of the black community, understanding the formation of such a figure requires a far more complex reading. In addition to addressing the contemporary exercise of gendered racism, intracommunal discussions and debates about black sexuality (inspired by the video vixen) show that black popular culture can create new discursive spaces. Sometimes it also exposes intracommunal negotiations over the effects of racial subordination, the contemporary meanings of racial community, and the politics of black hypersexuality.
“真正的男人会站起来吗?”
考虑到种族主义的实践和黑人自卑的意识形态依赖于根深蒂固的黑人性欲亢进的形象,社区内性崇拜和性行为的表现掩盖了种族主义的存在,这可能不足为奇。尽管如此,这样的表述也会导致我们误解种族从属是如何在黑人社区中被灌输、协商和挑战的。对Karrine Steffans,她的书《一个视频荡妇的自白》以及她所代表的新文化形象(视频荡妇、模特、“跳脱”、“groupie”或“ho”)的许多回应揭示了对黑人女性以及黑人男性及其性行为的多重投资。布莱克认为,虽然主流话语会把厌女形象的传播归咎于黑人社区的家门口,但要理解这样一个人物的形成,需要一个复杂得多的阅读。除了解决性别种族主义的当代实践,社区内关于黑人性行为的讨论和辩论(受到视频雌狐的启发)表明,黑人流行文化可以创造新的话语空间。有时,它也暴露了关于种族从属影响的社区内部谈判,种族社区的当代意义,以及黑人性欲亢进的政治。
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