WOMS 020 Lecture 10: WOMS 20 - MAMMIES, MATRIACRCHS, AND OTHER CONTROLLING IMAGES
18 Apr 2018
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Woms 20- lecture 10 - mammies, matriarchs, and other controlling. Intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, andsexuality could not continue without powerful ideological justifications for their existence. Black women are key in intersecting oppression, by not belonging. Black women"s assertiveness: variety of negative images. The authority to define social values is major instrument of power. Elite groups, manipulate ideas about black womanhood. Designed to make racism, sexism, poverty, and other forms of social injustice appear to be natural, normal, and inevitable parts of everyday life. It categorizes people, things, and ideas in terms of their differences from one another. Hierocharal bonds justifies political economies of race, gender, and class oppression. In binary thinking, one element is classified as the other. Viewed as an object to be manipulated and controlled. Domination always involves attempts to objectify the subordinate group. The traditional family ideal, true woman possessed four cardinal values:
