Leading Conversations on Black Sexualities and Identities
About the Book Series
Leading Conversations in Black Sexualities and Identities aims to stimulate sensitive conversations and teachings surrounding black sexuality. Written by academics and practitioners who have dedicated their work to the distinctive sexual and relational experiences of persons of African descent, the series aims to provoke an enhanced understanding throughout the field of sexology and identify educational and clinical strategies for change. Amplifying issues and voices often minimalized and marginalized, this series is a continuation and expansion of inquiry and advocacy upon the complexities and nuances of relational negotiation, identity affirmation, critical discourse, and liberated sexual expression.
Butch Heterosexuality in Black Caribbean Womanhood: Exploring Gender Performance and Sexuality
1st Edition
By Marsha Myrie Obi
November 05, 2025
This critical text proposes new ways of conceptualizing Black womanhood by challenging plantation patriarchal culture, its binary constructions, and methods of Black heterosexual coupling. Black Women’s performances of womanhood are understood from juxtapositions with white idealism resulting in ...
Solutions For Anti-Black Misandry, Flat Blackness, and Black Male Death: The Black Masculinist Turn
1st Edition
By T. Hasan Johnson
August 29, 2025
This book deconstructs stereotypes about Black men through the exploration of their vulnerability, drawing attention to their demographic-specific issues and needs that are so rarely articulated. Since the Black Power era, many Black men have responded with a Black identity affirming sensibility ...
Sex Positivity and White-Sex Supremacy: Ending Complicity in Black Body Erasure
1st Edition
By Carole Clements
June 27, 2025
This text critically examines, argues, and demonstrates how the sex-positive movement is complicit in the perpetuation of White Supremacy and anti-black bias in the field of human sexualities, offering white sexuality professionals embodied ethical antiracist strategies for sexual inclusion and ...
The Colonization of Black Sexualities: A Clinical Guide to Relearning and Healing
1st Edition
By Anne Mauro
May 26, 2025
Anne Mauro invites therapists to look through a historical lens to view how the harmful effects of colonization and white supremacy impact their Black client’s sexuality in the modern day. Written from her unique position as a sex therapist and bi-racial Black woman, Mauro believes that by ...
Black Women’s Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement
1st Edition
By Clarissa E. Francis
May 19, 2025
This text explores scholarship, practice, and advocacy for Black women’s pursuit of bodily autonomy, sexual freedom, and pleasure. Inspired by Megan Thee Stallion’s song "Hot Girl Summer" and pleasure activism, Dr. Clarissa E. Francis ("The Real Hot Girl Doc") examines the cultural and social ...
Sexual Health and Black College Students: Exploring the Sexual Milieu of HBCUs
1st Edition
By Naomi M. Hall
October 09, 2024
This book explores the various psychosocial, sociocultural, and contextual factors that affect the sexual health of Black students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and how this environment can help develop strategies to improve sexual health outcomes for its students...
Internalized Homonegativity Among Same Gender Loving Black Men: An Exploration of Truths
1st Edition
By P. Ryan Grant
October 08, 2024
This book accessibly explores the phenomenon of internalized homonegativity among same gender loving Black men who love other men, providing practical tools to help therapists identify the underlying motivations for their clients' feelings. Written from personal and clinical experience, P...
Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying: Intersecting Distress
1st Edition
By Leah P. Hollis
October 07, 2024
Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying extends and enriches the current literature on workplace bullying by examining specifically how work abuse disproportionality hurts women of color, affecting their mental health negatively and hence their career progression. In this ...