This article, utilizing an exploratory methodological approach, examines to what extent historical materialist theory can explain the omission of Black senior women from discourse on sexuality in the United States.

This article presents historical womanist theory, which situates Black women as a unique racialized and gendered laboring class in the US.

Black Woman's Burden examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion.

This article calls out state-sponsored terror against women’s bodies in ways that intertwine patriarchy with racism, class exploitation, and heterosexism.

This chapter, part of Pictures and Mirrors: Race and Ethnicity in Brazil and the United States (2009), critically examines Brazil’s long-standing ideology of racial whitening (branqueamento) and its role in shaping the country’s self-image as a “racial democracy.”

This research identifies ways in which images of Black women’s reproduction and parenting are manipulated in order to justify ongoing regulation and dominance of Black labor.