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Article: Hardcore desire: Black women laboring in porn--is it just another job?
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- Colorlines Magazine
- Article date:
- December 22, 2005
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Turn on MTV or BET and you will see beautiful, young Black women dancing in various states of undress. Nelly's "Tip Drill" video took the hyper-commodification of Black women's bodies to another level, when he slid a credit card down one model's booty and redefined the meaning of bling. Indeed, hip-hop music videos, being dominated by these images, have been at the forefront of the globalization of Black women's bodies as currencies of desire and disgust, economy and resistance.
Yet these videos are only a softcore taste of the types of representations found in the hardcore adult entertainment industry. Not surprisingly, powerful silences about Black sexuality ...