Description
Carney documents how some black women reconceptualize the public and private spheres by using residential hotels and multiuse commercial spaces for housing and work, controlling their erotic economies and their sexual-cultural lives. She marks how discrete and explicit intellectual, economic, and political practices by black women complicate a dominant understanding of red-light areas and black sex workers as undesirable contaminators who must be "cleaned out." Instead, her intuitive framework of "disreputability" offers a more ethical and workable approach to imagining the built environment and its inhabitants—developing a rich and robust grammar for understanding black women's lives in the scene of militarization and gendered anti-blackness.
Book Information
ISBN 9780520395084
Author Christina Jessica Carney
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press