19 Apr I need a 4-5 page guide on the expression of black female radicalism. I have notes, quotes, and links I just need a cohesive piece Critical guide

Delice Nsubayi

04.07.22

Professor Joyce Scott

Black radicalism

The Expressions and exploitation of Black Female Radicalism

You should have a minimum of 4 outside critical sources, properly cited in your paper

Performance or politics

· Sexual racism is not new experience for black women. It has been drowned out but is ingrained in American culture and has contributed to the specific perspective of black women in order to justify the creation in the United States. According to Harvard University “Since enslaved people were first brought to this country, promoters of anti-Black racism and white supremacy have co-opted the authority of science to justify racial inequality. A history of pseudoscientific methods “proving” white biological superiority and flawed social studies used to show “inherent” racial characteristics still influence society today.” The prejudice embedded in the science transcended beyond that field and into the social realm influencing and perpetuating dynamics already established. The science was used to try and justify the abuse of black people and women. By the early to mid-20th century, polygenism and biology-based racism were widely disproven, and racism in social science had gained popularity. Black features have been deemed ugly and abrasive, almost animalistic, therefore it is justified to be placed in a zoo to be viewed. Saartije “sara” Baartman was a south african woman born in 1789 who fell victim to sexual trafficking and exploitation, a problem plaguing the black communnity today. Bartmaan was brought into domestic servitude by colonists, enslaved and sold throughout Europe. Bartmaan was sold to S. Reaux, an animal exhibitor who put her on display in Paris in 1814. She was sexually abuse by men willing to oay and had no conntol as trhe courts allowed her contract to remain in tact. Scientific racism directly impacted the treatment of black women. The fallacies in regard to our bodies and our ability to endure has impacted our experience, impacting our perspective, impacting our expression.

· rebought by many dis

· zoo/

· Black features deemed too much

· Law

· Down talk but it's not always from hate but can be of envy will lead to and copy

· Sara baartman exploiting for views while demeaning while also mimicking with old school big butt skirts

· How do they take control?

· Stereotypes of jezebel , mulatto, mammy

· Gives whiteness control of the narrative

· ―While most people of color, and African Americans in particular are perceived through a distorted lens, Black women are routinely defined by a specific set of grotesque caricatures that are reductive, inaccurate, and unfair‖ (Jones andShorter-Gooden, 2003, p. 3)

· Black radicalism is about being beyond whiteness by own rules

· Black womens performances :

· “Accepting” jezebel others say ability to be free

· Radical because it is not conforming to white standards

· Double jeopardy of being an image. Double edge sword of being able to choose but to choose who they expected you to be

· Black radicalism in black luxury it isn't a charactacter of any past image

· It is new, it has no script, has no monolith

· Rest is a major part of the movement

· Honoring ancestors by doing something they weren't able to do.

· Still there is exploitation in this form of media look at charlie demelio

New terms to become black women: trans racial rachel dolezal

Paid for our pain: charlie tik tok

Jlo vs ashanti

Black art being stolen from africa

The matrix origin

Toni morrison https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-women-in-art-and-literature

Silverman andRader (2009) remind us that, ―the problem, of course with all stereotypes is their propensity to attribute group characteristics to individuals. Believing all Jews are smart or all African Americans are athletic can have subsequent negative effects that balance out any positives‖ (p. 271)

In the same way black women are expected to be certain performers that they dont get recognitions especially if they dont fit a look type or stereotype

https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/jezebel/

Expression of black feminism: black luxury movement

Double jeopardy to be black and female

https://library.harvard.edu/confronting-anti-black-racism/scientific-racism

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=osu1281378634&disposition=inline