Mythologizing Black women : unveiling white men's racist and sexist deep frame / Brittany C. Slatton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slatton, Brittany C.

Series:

New critical viewpoints on society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

United States.

Physical Description:

v, 140 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

White men seldom choose black women as marriage partners. Slatton uses innovative internet research methods to reveal candid prejudices about relationship partners in a book that thoroughly refutes that popular ideology of a color-blind or post racial America. Slatton examines the deep frame of white men found in opinions and emotional reactions to black women and their body types, personalities, behaviors, and styles of speech. Their internet responses to questionnaires shows how they treat as common sense racialized, gendered, and classed versions of black women as unwanted, unattractive, black females with unbridled sexuality and illegitimate relationship status. The internet acts as a backstage setting, allowing white men to anonymously express raw feelings about race and sexuality without the fear of reprimand.

Contents:

Introduction : white men's deep frame of black women

Physical attraction and the normative white standard

Two very different classes of black women : race, gender, class, and culture

Narratives of the unwanted woman

Conclusion : the disciplinary power of the deep frame.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612050492

1612050492

OCLC:

714715787