Friday, November 14, 2014

Conclusions...

from http://theseventhart.info/category/cinema-of-belgium/
Although, I have enjoyed many of the conversations pertaining to black women's images in popular culture, such as:
It is important to clarify that my questions about black women's images are not rooted in ideas of respectability or philosophies of liberation within feminism. 

My questions are more about if and how these images resembling the sensasionalized Baartman may be representative caricatures of black women that are architectured and engineered for consumption for the masses.

And if the popular images of black women resembling the sensationalized Baartman caricature are becoming even further reductive than historically noted minstrels, such as the mammy and jezebel figures.  

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