1st Edition
From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy
By K. Sue Jewell
Copyright 1993
252 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do the mass media contribute to the social and economic advantages of the privileged and the subjection of African American women? Does America really care about providing equal opportunities for African American women? Passionately written and supported with detailed evidence this book shows the deeply rooted abiding cancer of oppresion in American society. It reveals the formal and... Read more
Chapter 1 The Status of African American Women; Chapter 2 The Social Significance of Cultural Imagery; Chapter 3 Cultural Images as Symbols of African American Womanhood; Chapter 4 Imagery of African American Womanhood; Chapter 5 Cultural Imagery of African American Women and Empiricism; Chapter 6 Gender-Oriented Social Policy; Chapter 7 The US Legal System; Chapter 8 Determining Entitlements; Chapter 9 A Microcultural Response; Chapter 10 Redefining Images of African American Womanhood and Reshaping Social Policy;
Biography
K. Sue Jewell is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Black Studies at The Ohio State University.
`From Mammy to Miss America and beyond is a long overdue cultural history of African-American female subjectivity as is has been produced through the white, Anglocentric and patriachal industries of entertainment, advertising and the government. Jewell mounts a forceful project that is not only able to loosen the grip of white culture on the image of the African-American woman but demystify its ideological hegemony in order to transform existing policies and social practices towards a more just and equitable order.' - Peter McLaren, Renowned Scolar in Residence, Miami University of Ohio
