Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality

Contents

• Preface                                                                      
• Introduction
• 1. Reading Race, Gender, and Sex: Black Intimate Relations, Black Inequality,  
• and the Rhythm and the Blues Imagination
• 2. “Whip Appeal:” Reading Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds 
• 3. “Freak Like Me:” Reading Adina Howard                                                   
• 4.“Didn’t We Almost Have It All:” Reading Whitney Houston                              
• Epilogue                     
• Appendix A                           
• Appendix B                                                                              
• Appendix C
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography