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By Marquita Marie Gammage

ISBN-10: 1138945196

ISBN-13: 9781138945197

In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois mentioned the damnation of girls as associated with the devaluation of motherhood. This quandary, he argues, had a crushing blow on Black girls as they have been compelled into slavery. Black womanhood, portrayed as hypersexual by means of nature, turned an everlasting stereotype which didn't coincide with the honour of mom and spouse. This portrayal keeps to augment damaging stereotypes of Black girls within the media this present day. This e-book highlights how Black girls were negatively portrayed within the media, targeting the export nature of media and its skill to exhibit notions of Blackness to the general public. It argues that media equivalent to rap song movies, tv dramas, truth tv exhibits, and newscasts create and have an effect on expectancies of Black girls. Exploring the position that racism, misogyny and media play within the illustration of Black womanhood, it presents a starting place for tough modern media’s portrayal of Black girls.

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The message of Women as Gold-Diggers can be defined as Black women are obsessed with material objects. Respondent #8 reported “Women are impressed by material goods and money and they want a man with money”. ” For respondent #1, “the message is women are objects, and they only care about the money and cars men have”. And men can get them with their money”. In two out of the four videos multiple respondents described the message of the videos as the Hyper-sexual Nature of Black Peoplehood. Respondent #2: The message is men encouraged women to go to a secret place where nobody knows is at, to have sex with them or multiple people.

The damnation of Black women and their images in the 20th century was orchestrated through political, economic, and social institutions. The creation of planned-parenthood clinics and the eugenics project instituted a political and social assault on Black motherhood that would result in policies aimed at restricting Black women’s reproductive ability, while at the same time promoting the increase of White motherhood. Clinics designed to promote the use of contraceptives and abortions sprang up throughout Black communities in the 1920s and miseducated Black women about reproductive planning.

These findings illuminate the potential for rap music videos to affect the social behaviors and thoughts of its viewers. It is therefore imperative that we fully investigate the representation of Black women in rap music videos. A sample of the top 10 rap music videos featuring Black women as artists, dancers, and general performers from the daily broadcast of Billboard’s Top 15 Rap Songs, and BET’s 106 & Park Top Ten Countdown was collected from January 2010 to September 2010. 1). A random sample of four top ten rap music videos were selected for inclusion in the study.

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