WGST-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Trophy Wife, Carmen Miranda, Super Bowl
3 Apr 2016
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Domination always involves attempts to objectify the subordinate group. Black woman brought in and put on display so that white people could see the differences. The first controlling image applied to african american women is that of mammy the faithful, obedient, domestic servant (ex: gone with the wind, Woman from the help cannot play another role. Created post-slavery during the time black people were trying to assimilate themselves into the white world. Black women had to go out to work because men underpaid idea that black men were being emasculated by black women (see this in government report) All black women are sassy, pointing the finger at you, loud, angry, telling men what to do. Hypersexual black woman who could not control her horniness and threw herself at men. Stereotype created to justify masters" raping their black women slaves. Even after slavery, many times white men were not convicted for raping black women.
