Running head: PORTRAYAL OF BLACK WOMEN ON TELEVISION 1

Black Women on Television : The Blaxploitation Endured in America Breanna Robinson St. John’s University

BLACK WOMEN ON TELEVISION 2 The Portrayal of Black Women on Television Shows: Blaxploitation in America From the commencement of time, black women were subjugated to ridicule and stereotyping within their character. However, especially through texts and …show more content…
More often than not as well , slave owners would offer things such as reduced labor if the slave women would consent to sexual relations with them. Sometimes there were even instances of the slave owners and slaves having feelings and sexual attraction for each other. People however will come up with their own ideas and make decisions based on the situation that they’re in. What was really happening with slavery and the sleeves ideas about themselves would often lead the females to engage in relationships with white men. The slave woman who refused the sexual unions whisked getting abused raped having their husband and children murdered. In order to protect their loved ones, the woman ended up giving into the sexual advancements which further the notion the black women were sexual beings. The idea that black women inherently sexually promiscuous beings was reinforced by numerous things within the slavery system. Slaves that were sold were forced to get …show more content…
These films further portrayed women as having a an acute sense of self that makes a mockery of the male prospected fantasy of using female sexuality to their advantage
(Demers, 2003). Others may argue that this is black women agreeing with sexually deviant and uncaring
Jezebel (Woodard & Mastin, 272) pigeonhole as a fact. Given the social climate that
Blaxploitation films were created under, the unconcealed representations of a hyper sexualized woman was seemingly inspirational. The black women especially that were reflected in these films created their own ideologies of what success is and how a black person can achieve it. This then goes into the feminist movement to a degree. Borders are shifting as the postcolonial façade is starting to disintegrate into post modernism, helping us to understand social change (McRobbie, 521).
As a result, to further enter into discourse, one must have a willingness to explore the emerging other side. The sense of injustice of the civil rights movement is replaced with