Hip-Hop's Betrayal Of Black Women

Also, in the article, “Black Feminist Thought”, Collins argued that African-American women

Helga flees and faces assimilationism and school internalized racism. In Harlem, the novel exposes how the white culture exploits the culture of African American. Helga flees again as she fears sexual objectification. She moves to Denmark where exploitation is still evident as Helga is treated as a sex object. Consequently, she rejects this society and returns to Harlem.

On the contrary, men were not the only black people to be discriminated. Black women were also a target of stereotypes. Wilson saw that in order to be successful or seen as an equal blacks had to conform to the most popular race’s ideals. Any ideas outside of this were shunned. The only way to be celebrated was to become like the rest of society because blacks were stereotyped as inferior and les honorable than the main culture in

Misogynistic themes play a strong hand with the claiming of power as the theme of inferiority, specifically of African American women in comparison to men or women over other women interplay to form powerful social messages regarding gender expectations in contemporary society. This statement is supported by Pough (2015, 9) who states that rap is both “sexist and degrading” to black women. Likewise, Hooks notes that misogynistic themes are ingrained within the “racially and sexually oppressive capitalistic patriarchal system” and thus affects rap music as it operates within this system (cited in Adams and Douglas 2006,

The Blacker the Berry is a remarkable, well-known novel by Wallace Thurman that explores and investigates prejudice and all types of pressures that are placed upon women but more importantly, the black community. The famous saying “The Blacker the Berry, the sweeter the juice” means the more unique qualities one may have- the better, but in this novel it takes another turn. During this time period, African Americans and whites were heavily segregated and they endured a lot of discrimination so when the novel told the reader that there was discrimination within the black community, it was completely unheard of. Wallace Thurman received a lot of criticism since he published The Blacker the Berry during a time period where most literature was

In the short story “Battle Royal”, written by Ralph Ellison, the author addresses social issues facing black individuals concerning the inability to advance against the racial hierarchy. The author depicts the struggles of the unnamed black narrator’s efforts in advancing in a world that predominately favors the works of white individuals. Throughout the composition, the author’s use of vivid imagery and metaphoric reflections of the battle royal, recreates the disillusion of the realities of racism and how it ultimately affects the black consciousness. In contrast “Meaning of a Word”, written by Gloria Naylor details the definition of power and the different meanings that the usage of the racial slur “nigger” may have within different racial

The Angry Black Woman saying comes from the sapphire stereotype. The stereotypes claim that black women are dominant, masculine and aggressive. It also claims Black women drove their partners and children away from them which is called “unnecessary anger”. The stereotype has portrayed the black women as very opinionated, harsh, loud, bad attitudes, always negative and rude. If you decide to wear your hair in a natural state that is considers unprofessional, unkept, and or distracting.

Hilly feels as though Aibileen was disrespectful to have provoked her since she and her people are so, in her mind, less than and “they carry different kinds of diseases than she does".

In the media, African Americans shortcomings and failures are emphasized frequently. “Instead of using traditional racism which is seen as unacceptable in contemporary society because it is more blatant and obvious racism, modern racism is used” (Entman 1992:341). Examples of traditional racism include: using racial slurs when addressing African American people, using images that contain exaggerated features such as big lips, tough hair, wide nostrils, or portraying African Americans as unintelligent. This kind of philosophy had been more prevalent from slavery to the civil rights era. “Modern racism is defined as a compound of hostility, rejection, and denial on the part of whites toward the activities and aspirations of African Americans”

The counterclaim will talk about how Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs narrative talk about how how women had it worse than men did. The reason why women had it worse was because of the sexual abuse. Men was physically and emotionally abused like women but the fact that women were also sexually abused made it worse than men. In Harriet's narrative she talks about how beauty was a curse "If God has bestowed beauty upon her, it will prove her greatest curse."

When Claudia Rankine addresses visibility in Citizen, a main issue of concern is the stigmatization of a black person’s skin. Throughout the book Rankine displays how being black, or a minority, in today’s society equates to being viewed as basal and, or innately criminal. The scenario in which a black man’s role switches from babysitter to delinquent simply because the color of his skin appears menacing to his white counterpart clearly exhibits said jarring claim (15). In addition, the attention brought onto skin color also reveals the hypocrisy in labeling today’s society as “post race” since implied judgments and preconceived notions of minorities still plague social exchanges. As a result, the line separating a genuine misunderstanding

The anti-lynching writings therefore enclosed a comprehensive view of the racialized sexual politics of the south; a justification of the black men as true men, a critique of white would-be protectors as just corrupt and exposure of white women as active participants to white supremacy in sexual politics together with re-centering of the black women’s experiences in the incidences of rape, sexualized racism and lynching. She documented unbiased suffering of attacks of lynching and rape on black women and girls. By so doing, she staged a claim of outraged black womanhood that was first articulated by the opponents of slavery though becoming unthinkable under the white supremacists ideology by time the nineteenth century came to an end. She also describes the black women rapes as a piece of black men

The author uses a variety of other works to support this analysis of dynamics of race, masculinity and power. However, in referencing newspaper articles, the author admits that these tactics effectively shifted the conversation of the female involvement in civil rights activities and addresses how the bias

The “racial mountain” of which Langston Hughes writes about is the pressure put on Black artists and artist of color to remove their race from their work, and to be simple American. In addition, the racial mountain is the burden placed on the artist by those of their own race to portray the race in a respectable way. This this “racial mountain” that deeply influenced the artist of Hughes’ time still affects black artists and artist of color today. One way in which one can see that is through the aftermath of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade.” People accused Beyoncé of being racist, were upset at her inclusion of Malcolm X

Despite these possible explanations about whether rap and hip hop artists use homophobic language as an attack against white men, homosexuality or as a way to affirm their masculinity, it does not change the fact that the use of this homophobic language is wrong and not a viable solution. However, there are artists who currently resist the masculine gender representation of rap, hip hop and even alternative R&B. In Frederik Dhaenens’ “Resistant masculinities in alternative R&B? Understanding Frank Ocean and The Weeknd’s representations of gender” he writes, “Hegemonic R&B and hip hop masculinity is grafted onto a history of racism and systematic oppression by White Americans of African-American men… the manhood of Black men has been constantly scrutinized, questioned and defied” (285). When black manhood is threatened oftentimes