Mabel Simmons

No, “Diary of a Stereotypical Black Woman” is not the name of an actual film by Tyler Perry. Considering the work succeeding his directorial film debut of Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005, it would be presumably safe to assume “Diary of a Stereotypical Black Woman” would possibly be a title within his archive of films. Though entertaining at best, this faux title represents an overall message that Perry has been presenting to his audiences since 1998. In both his line of plays and films, Tyler

Stereotypes of African Americans in Tyler Perry Films Nautica C. Hereford Wright State University Abstract This paper highlights the negative stereotypes of African Americans that are reinforced in Tyler Perry’s films. The misrepresentation of African Americans in the media has become normalized, meaning African Americans in stereotypical roles have become accepted (Tosi, 2011). The misrepresentation of African Americans in Perry’s films can be traced back to his cruel upbringing. This paper

From live theater to cinema, from the banjo to hip-hop, from whites in blackface to blacks in blackface, America has imitated and exploited black and has since then not gone back. Many of the adjectives persistently used today to describe African Americans, “lazy, ignorant, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical” were the same words used to describe African Americans throughout the duration of the minstrel shows’ history centuries ago (“The Mammy Caricature”). Real-life black circumstances