Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low

by C. Riley Snorton

Book Overview

Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low"--black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual--has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly's hip hopera Trapped in the Closet. Most down-low stories are morality tales in which black men are either predators who risk infecting their unsuspecting female partners with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816677972
• ISBN13: 9780816677979
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"