%0 Journal Article
%T Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris
%A Suzanne W. Jones
%J Transatlantica : Revue d'¨¦tudes Am¨¦ricaines
%D 2012
%I Association fran?aise d'¨¦tudes am¨¦ricaines
%X In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, cultural critic bell hooks argues that ˇ°no one seems to know how to tell the storyˇ± of white men romantically involved with slave women because long ago another story supplanted it: ˇ°that story, invented by white men, is about the overwhelming desperate longing black men have to sexually violate the bodies of white women.ˇ± Narratives of white exploitation and black solidarity have made it difficult to imagine consensual sex and impossible to i...
%U http://transatlantica.revues.org/5391