FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Patricia Hill Collins, Dark Skin, Sexualization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

& passes her bad values onto her kids (took it away from a deserving white male) Doesn(cid:495)t have time for men, only got her job because of affirmative action. Jezzebele: beyonce did wear sexual type clothing however the camera never sexualizes her in any means more so they xzoom in onto her face. The professor of the criminal law class is a black woman who is a defense. The black guy (gibbens) is lost because it is his first day of law school and does not know the case. The professor has short black hair and has dark skin, so she may be acting out what hooks describes. The professor is a complicated figure because she appears both the mammy and the matriarch. The two black women are shown to be short tempered. The professor is represented as a treacherous black woman. She is not one dimensional and shown to be complicated.