AAS 275: Midterm Jeopardy Review

What is the stereotype that emasculates and seemingly hates Black men? They often appear in films as the sassy Black friend?

Sapphire

What is the modern version of a stereotype that originated as the Jezebel figure under slavery?

Hoochie

What is the controlling image from Patricia Hill Collins that depicts Black women as controlling and domineering, yet often not sexual?

Matriarch 

Define the Welfare Queen

A controlling image that depicts Black women as irresponsible mothers to their own children, who manipulate the welfare system for benefits

What is the asexual, happy servant stereotype?

Mammy

Name all 7 of Patricia Hill Collins' Controlling Images

Mammy, Matriarch, Black Lady, Jezebel, Welfare Queen, Hoochie Mama, & Sapphire

Author bell hooks describes the process by which women refuse to identity and resist dominant narratives as the ____ _____

Oppositional gaze

What is the production of meaning through language and signs/symbols/ideas?

Semiotics

What is a category of artistic work characterized by similar styles, forms, or subjects?

Genre

Define the theory of intersectionality

How Black women are rendered invisible through the legal system because of race and gender

Who argues, if Black women were free, everyone else would be free?

Combahee River Collective

The “Other” is a subject position marked by marginalization and difference? Which two authors used this key concept?

Stuart Hall and bell hooks

Who invented the terms digital alchemy and misogynoir?

Moya Bailey

Who invented the theory of intersectionality?

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Who invented the term oppositional gaze?

bell hooks