Marquita Marie Gammage: 1 book
Representations of Black Women in the Media
The Damnation of Black Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois cited the damnation of women as linked to the devaluation of motherhood. This dilemma, he argues, had a crushing blow on Black women as they were forced into slavery. Black womanhood, portrayed as hypersexual by nature, became an enduring stereotype which did not coincide with...
