“Open an academic tome analyzing the role of black women in pornography and you may expect major criticism of the industry and the women who work in it. You know, complaints of how it exploits women, perpetuates stereotypes, and how the majority of the women working in it are doing so out of desperation and limited options.In A Taste for Brown Sugar, all of those issues are acknowledged and given their due, but author Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California — argues that despite being a minority in an already maligned industry, and having to represent many of the worst racial stereotypes around sex, black female per- formers have always given the viewer signs of agency and degrees of control, while subverting their confines in the porn industry through their individual performances.”

