Black Women's Negative Connotation

Finally, black women are stereotype for being gold diggers, video vixens, and jezebels. Black women that are gold diggers exchange sex for money or gifts. These women are not committed in a relationship with men. They are sexually active and seek for sexual favors (Wallace, Townsend, Glasgow, & Ojie, 2011). For example, Hugh Hefner the founder of Playboy has 3 to 4 Playboy Bunnies (girls) that live with him in his mansion. These Playboy Bunnies have sex with Hef for fan and gifts. Black women that are video vixens appeared in hip hop music videos. These women are female models that exploit their body. They can be seen dancing in videos with their boobs and butts out. For example, Draya Michele is a video vixen. She appears in many videos

Within popular culture today, objectified female bodies can be represented everywhere from advertising images to magazine covers, television, music and many more. Through these media institutions, we allow them to construct social identities in ways that allow us to understand what it means to be black, white, Asian, male or female etc. Within many popular culture mediums such as music, stereotypical representations of racially marked female bodies are often formed. Thus, these representations also have the ability to create stories about a certain culture. In music videos, it does not go unnoticed that women are portrayed as objects whose objectives are to pleasure men. In this paper, I will argue how racially marked female bodies are represented. This paper will mainly focus on how these racially marked women are depicted in the hip hop culture. To demonstrate this, I will draw examples by using award winning music videos by Nicki Minaj, R.Kelly, 50 cent to exemplify representations of the female body and how they are objectified as sex objects. In conclusion, we will be able to see how the female bodies are used in mainstream hip hop videos to convey seductively.

I would argue that most of the images in which society has provided the African American community with are negative images of “African American” women. For example, on VH1 there are shows like Basketball Wives, and Love and Hip Hop in which from the surface appears to be a group of friends that like to hang out, shop and party however, as you watch the show the ladies are depicted as hypersexual, sex objects, violent, hostile, aggressive and use derogatory terms when referring to each other. This is a problem due to the fact African American adolescents do not have enough positive images in which they can utilize in assisting them in developing a positive self-image, self-esteem or just a general idea of self-worth. With there being a lack

In today’s society, there are intricate and subtle racial patterns in the mass media that show how powerful images play a significant role in shaping the attitudes of Whites toward Blacks. White Americans, they show, learn about African Americans not through personal relationships, but through the images shown by the media. . In short, they conclude that although there are more images of African-Americans on television now than ever, these images are often harmful to the prospect of unity between the races. With the advancement of technology such as advertisement, there has always been a stereotypical view of how women are portrayed in the media. For hundreds of years, women have been viewed as sexual objects in the eyesight of many

Media always find a way to portray women as sexual object. What’s so upsetting to me is how society portrays women and its always one particular group that stands out the most. Just take a great guess on what group you think stands out the most. Yes you guessed it right, Black women in media always have a very negative view. Media supports negative stereotypes about African American women by showing them in an objectifying darkness. I feel society has to bring down a particular group and that group is black women. The images of black women is very negative falling typically into the stereotypical categories as “Gold Diggers, Mammy’s, Jezebels, Baby Mamas, Uneducated Sistas, Ratchet, Angry Black Women, Unhealthy Women, and my all-time favorite,

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have Black women… when Black people are talked about the focus tends to be on Black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.” - Bell Hooks

hair and is extremely damaging to the hair and from personal experience can lead to permanent scarring and scalp irritation to name a few. Since Black women are apart of the “mass” that McCombs and Shaw reference in their theory, they are also consuming these images and have no other way to think about themselves. This puts more pressure on Black women to want to assimilate to Eurocentric standards of beauty which has a direct effect on their self-esteem as discussed in the very popular documentary ‘For Dark Girls’ where Black women discussed their struggles with trying to achieve this Eurocentric standard of beauty.

As a Black woman, there are certain stereotypes about Black women and Black people in general that I find humorous or true. For example, the stereotype that Black people lover watermelon is something that I find funny because it is not harmful to Black people. However, the more heinous stereotypes about Black people being aggressive and promiscuous are not true or humorous to me. Of course, there are Black people who are aggressive or promiscuous it is harmful to believe all of us are that way. I also do not agree with the stereotypes about Arabs all being Muslim extremist, these types of stereotypes can cause harmful effects towards Arabs. I do believe that the harmful images against ethnic people and even White people can be reversed through

Throughout history, black female bodies have been marginalized by white society and viewed as only being valued for their bodies, specifically their genitals. bell hooks’ essay titled, “naked without shame: a counter-hegemonic body politic”, discusses the domination of the black female body and how there is little discussion on how the body has been “foregrounded as a site of conquest in all efforts of colonization”. According to hooks, black bodies are rarely highlighted in a way that counters the hegemonic representation of being

In The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto, Imani Perry argues that the over-sexualized, unattainable bodies of black women in popular culture will lead to the breakdown of feminism and the positive body image of the everyday black

The stereotypical misrepresentations of African-American women and men in popular culture have influenced societal views of Blacks for centuries. The typical stereotypes about Black women range from the smiling, asexual and often obese Mammy to the promiscuous Jezebel who lures men with her sexual charms. However, the loud, smart mouthed, neck-rolling Black welfare mother is the popular image on reality television. The typical stereotype about Black men is the violent, misogynistic thug, and the ever-enduring pimp. These images portrayed in media and popular culture createpowerful ideology about race and gender, which affects daily experiences of Black women in America. With few healthy relationships portrayed in the media, Black women

In the context of physical appearance, black woman are only featured with body parts- mainly their “large, rotund behind” (Perry 137). The presentation of the face is mainly limited to white or lighter-complexioned women. The highest idealization of women is one that possesses a “‘high-status’ face combined with a highly sexualized body read by the viewer as the body of a poor or working-class woman” (Perry 137). Perry further substantiates her claim by stating that “women are created or valued by how many fantasy elements have been pieced together in their bodies” (137). She debunks the opposition arguing that the bodies of black women are appreciated by pointing out that only a minority of black women have such attributes, and those without are pressured and struggle to achieve such proportions.

From the beginning of cinema, the media has shown black women as nothing more than objects, dehumanizing them all together. This representation has held a long-lasting impact on both young and old African American women everywhere. The theme of my paper is about the media and how it has a negative impact on black women. The topics that I will be covering includes the following: need to prove the media wrong and working two times as hard as everyone else; social Media, TV and Movies and the roles they play; self-hatred and anger due to the comparisons to other ethnicities and that we are low-class, unattractive, uncivilized, uneducated and have no opportunities to make something of themselves; embracing what Black/ African Studies teaches; influential people and positive acknowledgments; how black women are affected and discouraged due to lack of self-love and knowledge. These impacts can come from another ethnicity and even from the black women themselves because of their lack of knowledge of where they come from, their history and overall grandness. Knowing these facts alone and embracing all that Black Studies teaches can reverse the damage that has been done to black women everywhere from ages one to one hundred. They begin to believe what they see or what they see on about themselves when it is drilled into their heads that all of what is seen in the media is true. Due to lack of knowledge of

Black women's beauty cannot be denied. The sway of her hips, her voluptuous frame, thick full lips, and naturally curly kinks that grows from her head like stems on a tree. But often times her beauty becomes a mirror of exploit. The shame of slavery of being abused, used, raped, degraded, and exploited is tattooed on her subconscious mind and in essence she becomes what she was taught to be. In the same regards, black men is no stranger to such exploit by society, they are seen as masculine, strong, and sex objects. These stereotypes is depicted in Hip hop culture. Black men take pride in being masculine and having larger genitals than his counterparts, and is not afraid to say "suck my d***". All too often black bodies have become nothing

In Patricia Hill Collins’ “Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images,” she illustrates four main stereotypes that Black women face. The first controlling image applied to African American women is “The Mammy.” The mammy is the faithful, obedient servant to the white family and the stereotype attempts to hide the fact that black women who work for white families are being exploited. By loving and caring for her white “children” more than her own, the mammy symbolizes the dominant group’s perceptions of the ideal black female relationship to elite white male power. The smiling mammy signals her agreement with the situation, seemingly accepting her subordination (Collins, 71). Next is the image of the Black matriarch (Collins, 73). According to the stereotype, they spend too much time away from home, are overly aggressive and unfeminine, and allegedly emasculate their lovers and husbands. This stereotype attempts to control conduct by punishing black women for assertiveness and hides the oppression by making it seem that black women are naturally this way (Collins, 74-75).