Sister Citizen : Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
ISBN: 9780300165418 | 0300165412
Format: Trade BookPublisher: Yale University Press
Pub. Date: 9/20/2011
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From a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken angerthese are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked room that shames them and shapes their experiences as citiz... MORE
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken angerthese are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked room that shames them and shapes their experiences as citiz... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| ôThe Hurricane,ö from Their Eyes Were Watching God | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 4 |
| ôThe Bridge Poem,ö | p. 24 |
| Crooked Room | p. 28 |
| Myth | p. 51 |
| ôResisting the Shame of Shug Avery,ö from The Color Purple | p. 98 |
| Shame | p. 101 |
| Disaster | p. 134 |
| ôNo Mirrors in My NanaÆs House,ö Sweet Honey in the Rock, lyrics | ... MOREp. 180 |
| Strength | p. 183 |
| God | p. 221 |
| ôPraise Song for the Day,ö | p. 266 |
| Michelle | p. 269 |
| Appendix: Survey Data | p. 301 |
| Notes | p. 315 |
| Index | p. 368 |
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Melissa V. Harris-Perry is professor of political science and founding director of a project on Race, Gender, and Politics in the South, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University. She is a contributor at MSNBC, a columnist for The Nation, and author of the award-winning book Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought. She lives in New Orleans.
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