![]() In 2013 Satoshi Kanazawa, an American evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, set off an international firestorm with a blog post for Psychology Today, in which he asserted that Black women were objectively less attractive than white women. These incidents crystallize the pervasiveness of the Welfare queen and Jezebel tropes in American public discourse. ![]() ![]() president’s demonstrably false claim that the majority of welfare recipients were Black. Recent examples include: the faux right-wing uproar over Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B’s WAPmusic video and the previous U.S. Social and government institutions in the United States continue to use these images, which work to perpetuate the erasure and oppression of Black women in a multitude of ways, limiting our rights and discrediting our experiences. In her groundbreaking 1990 monograph Black Feminist Thought, sociologist Patricia Hill Collins argues that certain controlling images of the American Black woman-e.g., Mammy, Matriarch, Welfare Recipient, Jezebel, Unwed Mother-continue to pervade American culture and are still being used as tools of oppression. ![]() ![]() The meme that was created to inspire Black women is now too often used to oppress them. ![]()
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