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Possible Implications for Black Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health. As mentioned, the current investigation provides evidence that unique stereotypes about Black women related to sexuality and motherhood influence people’s judgments of Black women in comparison to White women.
- Lisa Rosenthal, Marci Lobel
- 2016
Jezebel stereotype was particularly common during slavery, when black women’s bodies were socially controlled as sexual objects based on racist, classist, and sexist ideologies.24 Within the bounds of slavery, masters often felt it was their right to engage in sexual activity with enslaved black women.25 Sometimes, enslaved black women acquiesced
- Dominique R. Wilson
- 2021
Sep 24, 2018 · Present-day stereotypes of African American women as “hypersexual,” “aggressive,” and “angry” were born of representations that emerged in the past. 133,107,111–113 Negative sexual stereotypes of African American women began as a means to justify their enslavement and subsequent sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault ...
- Cynthia Prather, Taleria R. Fuller, William L. Jeffries, Khiya J. Marshall, A. Vyann Howell, Angela ...
- 10.1089/heq.2017.0045
- 2018
- Health Equity. 2018; 2(1): 249-259.
- Jezebel in The 20th Century
- Black Jezebels in American Cinema
- Conclusion
The portrayal of black women as Jezebel whores began in slavery, extended through the Jim Crow period, and continues today. Although the Mammy caricature was the dominant popular cultural image of black women from slavery to the 1950s, the depiction of black women as Jezebels was common in American material culture. Everyday items - such as ashtray...
In the 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation (Griffith), Lydia Brown is a mulatto character. She is the mistress of the white character Senator Stoneman. Lydia is savage, corrupt, and lascivious. She is portrayed as overtly sexual, and she uses her "feminine wiles" to deceive the formerly good white man. Lydia's characterization was rare in early Americ...
The Jezebel has replaced the Mammy as the dominant image of black women in American popular culture. The black woman as prostitute, for example, is a staple in mainstream movies, especially those with urban settings. The black prostitute and the black pimp supposedly give these movies cutting edge realism. Small budget pornographic movies reinforce...
Jun 3, 2021 · Due to their intersecting racial identity and gender identity, Black women are characterized by stigmatizing race-based sexual stereotypes (RBSS) that may contribute to persistent, disproportionately high rates of adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
- Keosha T. Bond, Natalie M. Leblanc, Porche Williams, Cora-Ann Gabriel, Ndidiamaka N. Amutah-Onukagha...
- 2021
Apr 29, 2022 · 4 min. Comes now Harvard University with its contribution to a public reckoning on race. Along with other top-flight universities around the country, Harvard has reported in detail on the ways in...
Feb 2, 2018 · Despite popular belief that black women were sexually lascivious and could not be raped, Celia insisted on her right to withhold consent and defend herself. 7 Celia could not speak on her own...