Generations of black women have struggled against the stereotypes held closely and fiercely by white men. Here Slatton (intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality, Texas Southern U.) goes deeply into that mythology built by white men to find the reasons for its building and to dismantle its racism and sexism. She examines the ideas of physical attraction of black women against the normative white standard, offers her ideas on how class affects perceptions of race and gender, then focuses on the figure of the unwanted woman. She closes with a discussion of the disciplinary power of the "deep frame" in which white men continue to behold, and hold, black women. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)