Black Women Can… Artist Talk
Level of Education of Students Involved
Undergraduate
Faculty Sponsor
Tiffany Bell
College
Arts and Sciences
Discipline(s)
CVA
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Symposium Date
Spring 4-27-2023
Abstract
My series “Black Women Can…” is designed to be an attack against the harmful stereotypes and attitudes aimed at black women, “misogynoir”. Misogynoir, coined by Moya Bailey, is the combination of the words “misogyny”, the harmful attitudes and oppression of women, and “noir”, black in French. Misogynoir is simply the misogyny of black women. In Bailey’s book Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance she describes the three archetypes that black women are cast. These stereotypes, coined by Carolyn M. West, are the jezebel, the mammy, and the sapphire. In these depictions of Black women in the media, consumers of said media are fed the same three narratives that say, “This is what Black women are, and this is how they behave in the real world.” Consequently, the repetitive use of these harmful stereotypes in media bleeds into the real world, in the form of misogynoir.
Recommended Citation
smith, kayla, "Black Women Can… Artist Talk" (2023). Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 1153.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/cus/1153
