Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality
- Author: Patterson, Robert J.
Book
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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