Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy

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Private Lives, Proper Relations begins with the question of why contemporary African American literatureparticularly that produced by black womenis continually concerned with issues of respectability and propriety. Candice M. Jenkins argues that this preoccupation has its origins in recurrent ideologies about African American sexuality, and that it expresses a fundamental aspect of the racial selfan often unarticulated link between the intimate and the political in black culture.