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Examples Of Denigration Of African American Women
Likewise, more stereotypes are added to the list of denigration of African Americans, the most famous among those stereotypes is the ‘bad girl’. The African American woman is considered sexually promiscuous with an insatiable horniness. These demeaning stereotypes taking roots from the slavery era whereas slaveholders conveyed this assumption to justify their rape crimes, they assumed that African American women should not be considered as victims because they always have the desire for sex. Along these lines, the stereotype becomes prominent in movies whereas the African American woman is depicted as the over-sexual woman who is loved only for her hot

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