3 Archetypes of black women
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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MAMMY
THe Aunt Jemima
She is fat…she is happy with her life of faithful service to White people. She smiles and laughs. Maybe too much. She has a good heart, but is not…bright or even…trustworthy…”
Mammy – “the Aunt Jemima Black woman.
She is fat…she is happy with her life of faithful service to White people. She smiles and laughs. Maybe too much. She has a good heart, but is not…bright or even…trustworthy…”
Mammy Today
JEZeBel
The Loose Woman
Jezebel – “named after an evil queen in the Bible, is a loose woman who wants sex all the time … she uses sex to draw men in to get what she wants. Sometimes it’s money. Sometimes, it’s to destroy them…”
Jezebel Today
“Like other forms of power, stories become subtle vehicles for the dominant class to construct and prescribe roles that lead to status differentiation.” – From TELLING OUR OWN STORY: The Role of Narrative in Racial Healing
Sapphire
named after a character in The Sitcom ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’
She is an overbearing, hard, and undesirable woman who drives men away.”
AKA "THe Angry Black Woman"
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Sapphire, named after a character in “Amos ‘n’ Andy”, always seems to have her hands on her hips while she is running her mouth – putting down her man, making everything into a fight, never taking anything lying down.
She is an overbearing, hard and undesirable woman who drives men away. Think of Tichina Arnold’s character Pam in “Martin”.
Michelle Obama comes dangerously close to being read this way.
A study done in 1993 of white American university students showed that nearly all of them saw black women as Sapphires to some degree.
Sapphire, named after a character in “Amos ‘n’ Andy”, always seems to have her hands on her hips while she is running her mouth – putting down her man, making everything into a fight, never taking anything lying down.
She is an overbearing, hard and undesirable woman who drives men away. Think of Tichina Arnold’s character Pam in “Martin”.
Michelle Obama comes dangerously close to being read this way.
A study done in 1993 of white American university students showed that nearly all of them saw black women as Sapphires to some degree.
