UID:
almafu_9959236725302883
Format:
1 online resource (139 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4384-3216-X
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1-4416-7886-7
Content:
Winner of the 2008 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies, this groundbreaking ethnographic study of racial stratification in queer and straight strip clubs examines the lives and working conditions of Black and Latina dancers in strip clubs in New York City and Oakland, California. Though interviews with dancers, customers, managers, boucers, and other strip club employees, Siobhan Brooks explores the connections between race, desire, and commodification in what she terms "desire industries." The study finds that even in times of economic gains for a minority of Black and Latino/a middle-class populations, sexual stereotypes and racial hypersexualization continue to affect many women of color who work in the sex industry, leading to more exposure to violence, wage gaps, and less access to more lucrative shifts and performance venues. Through her insightful and illuminating analysis, Brooks makes the case that racialized erotic capital is central to what owners think will sell, what customers will buy, how dancers negotiate those desire landscapes, and the male and female consumption of desire.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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History of desire industries in New York City : burlesque, the public sphere, and the construction of morality -- Marketing desire and geographic coding in the Bronx -- Race, exchange, and cultural capital -- Same-sex desire : race, class, and gender performance -- Reproducing cyber desire : the role of technology and desire industries -- Labor stratification in desire industries : colorism, citizenship, and erotic capital -- Conclusion: Race versus taste : symbolic racism in the post-civil rights era.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-3214-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-3215-1
Language:
English
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