Portrayals of African American Women in the Media

[cinnyminnie]

Post-Civil War, the stereotype of the highly sexualized Black Woman began to form, as rape of black women (by both black and white men) was seen as inconsequential. These negative stereotypes continue today (as your video showed) and makes black women more susceptible to rape & makes their rape crime that is not easily brought to justice.

[cinnyminnie]

This is a great video, I would like the make a small correction: the white slave masters did not try to assuage their guilt for raping black women. The women were seen as property and rape was (and still is) used a method of gaining and keeping power and control over your victim. It also helped them keep power and control over black men as secondary survivors because there were nothing they could do to protect the women they loved from this ultimate form of humiliation

[OrganikHispanik]

Imagine how much worse this video would be if it were about Latinas. No culture's women have been stereotyped as being "hot" and "sex-crazed" as commonly as Latinas are today. I wonder who started *that* stereotype?