Representation: Intersectionality - Bell Hooks

Question 1

Negative black female stereotypes

Answer 1

• Jezebels: Over-sexualised representation of black feminity
• Aunt Jemimas - Domestic service

Sapphires: Comedic depiction, angry mothers who cannot control their emotions and vilify black women who have power or are not passive

Question 2

Importance of intersectionality

Answer 2

-Highlights white male privilege

• Outlines economic oppression
• Gives a voice to invisible social groups
• Celebrates otherness

Question 3

Intersectional media

Answer 3

Media products that deliberately include or allude to an intersectional viewpoint

Question 4

Intersectionality

Answer 4

The exploration of oppression as aging an interconnected or underlying set of causes

Question 5

Otherness

Answer 5

Hooks suggests that those who are not white or male are others and, as such, are subject to the various oppressive practices of white masculinity

Question 6

Henry Jenkins who might challenge hooks thinking

Answer 6

Would suggest that contemporary media products, through participatory culture can circumvent established media power. Indeed, the online activism of #BlackLivesMatter provides a brilliant example of the power of participatory culture

+ We’ve seen far more deconstructed representations (Steve Neale)

C: There still is a largely white viewpoint on black issues, the lack of black power would represent the lack of black women represented in the industry itself. Civilisationsim (Paul Gilroy)