strong black woman
Does Kathy Griffith really think titling her standup comedy show "Strong Black Woman" has nothing to do with race? I think Ann duCille puts it best in "The Occult of True Black Womanhood":
"Within and around the modern academy [substitute popular media], racial and gender alterity has become a hot commodity that has claimed black women as its principal signifier. [...] Why are they [read white people] so interested in me and people who look like me (metaphorically speaking)?"
Good question, Ann, good question!
posted by colored me @ 5:51 PM
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Jennifer, Jennifer...when are you going to leave it alone? You KNOW how we black folk are always simultaneously the object of fascination and fear. Most whites never have to think of race and when they do, it's usually something to brighten their beige-living-ain't-got-no-rhythm lives.
At least there are a few, a smathering of whites who understand and respect the position we are put in and don't constantly try to appropriate our culture while keeping us out of their positions of power.
oh god, i heard about this show. where's the stuff post "eating the other?" i think we should organize a panel, after "i hate crash" called "how does it feel to be a trend?" -- something that afflicts all people of color in this era of Hollyweird and media colonization.
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