Review of Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood, by Marquita M. Gammage
Review of Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood, by Marquita M. Gammage
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媒体中黑人女性形象回顾：黑人女性的诅咒，作者：Marquita M. Gammage
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2017
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《媒体中的黑人妇女代表：黑人妇女的诅咒》一书中充满了大量的经验和理论材料。正文分为六个简短的章节，两侧是导言和结论。作者Marquita M. Gammage结合了非洲妇女主义，黑人女权主义和媒体研究，她分析了视觉媒体的表现和黑人妇女和女性的后续价值。引言部分首先简要讨论了西方社会对黑人女性的诅咒。Gammage为读者总结了W.E.B.杜波依斯认为，女性的诅咒与西方社会对女性的简化理解导致的母性贬值有关。从一开始，Gammage就指责当代媒体是强大而有效的网站，通过它来延续，回收和促进“反黑人妇女议程”，从而确保黑人继续非人化（1）。她赞同杜波依斯的观点，认为这一议程是由西方对女性的概念以及通过奴隶制产生的性别歧视和种族主义所决定的，而黑人妇女一直是奴隶制的主要目标。她强调，很少有研究表明这种形象对黑人妇女的重要性，并强调以前的研究也忽视了文化一致性分析。gammage概述了一个非洲妇女主义的理论方法，提出了定义轮廓的"诅咒"，并关闭了概述的每六个章节。Gammage对黑人女性的态度赋予了整体性，并植根于一个非洲妇女主义的概念框架，这一框架由Clessa Hudson-Weems、Delores阿尔德里奇、Pamela Yaa Asantewa Reed和Nah Dove的作品提供信息。在没有定义的
Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood is packed with substantial empirical and theoretical material. The text is organized into six short chapters flanked by an introduction and conclusion. Author Marquita M. Gammage combines Africana womanism, Black feminism, and Media Studies in her analysis of visual media representations and the subsequent valuations of Black women and womanhood. The Introduction begins with a brief discussion of the damnation of Black womanhood in Western societies. Gammage summarizes for the reader W.E.B. DuBois’s view that the damnation of womanhood was tied to the devaluation of motherhood resulting from Western societies’ reductionist understanding of femininity. From the outset, Gammage charges that contemporary media are powerful and effective sites through which to perpetuate, recycle, and promote an “anti-Black woman agenda” thereby securing the continued dehumanization of Black people (1). Echoing DuBois, she argues that this agenda is informed by Western conceptions of femininity and the sexism and racism birthed through slavery to which Black women have been the primary targets. She highlights how few studies have charted the significance of this imagery of and for Black women and emphasizes that previous studies have also neglected culturally congruent analyses. Gammage outlines an Africana womanist theoretical methodology, presents the definitional contours of “damnation,” and closes with an overview of each of the six chapters. Gammage’s approach to Black womanhood privileges wholeness and is rooted in an Africana womanist conceptual framework, informed by the work of Clenora Hudson-Weems, Delores Aldridge, Pamela Yaa Asantewa Reed, and Nah Dove. In none defined