Including the lynching of Black males and the rape of Black women, as acts of sexual violence, within the issue of miscegenation, Thompson (African American and American literature, City U. of New York) reads works of African American literature for how they treat miscegenation as an act of sexual consumption, reacting to how the white-supremacist culture of the United States is often in an enduring and often violent desire for Black bodies. The works examined are Richard Wright's poem on lynching, "Between the World on Me," John Oliver Killen's Youngblood," Gayle Jones' Corregidora, and Octavia Butler's Kindred. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)