WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neocolonialism
3 Mar 2017
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Traces the lineage and history of these images from those that were created about blacks slaves and connects them to contemporary discursive restriction for black women identification in popular media. Offers examples of a kind of resistance against these archetypes, tropes, and stereotypes in literary production and in film. Examples of resistance to the restrictions tropes of black womanhood and black masculinity are fervently debated in black feminist circles as well as between white and black women. The black lady (the sapphire ) (the angry black woman ) Black women"s activism against intersecting oppression often seen as threat to the status quo and such stereotype used to rationalize or justify us oppression of racialized women. Nature as associated with women and with racialized people as les human, more animalistic, more uncivilized. Such binaries deny some people subjectivity and supports the political economy of domination that characterized slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism .
