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RIGHT TO BE HOSTILE?: A Critique of Erica Chito Childs's “Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the ‘Angry Black Woman’”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2007

Michael Jeffries
Michael Jeffries
Affiliation:
Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Erica Chito Childs's article “Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the ‘Angry Black Woman’,” published in Gender and Society in 2005, represents an important empirical contribution to studies of interracial intimacy. Black women's voices are routinely marginalized during analyses of interracial dating, and, worse, their real-life experiences and first-person interpretations are replaced by demeaning, racist stereotypes of angry Black womanhood. Childs recognizes this tradition and acts to interrupt the cycle of Black female marginalization and insult through situating Black women in context and presenting their narratives with little interruption and interpretation.

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STATE OF THE DISCOURSE SYMPOSIUM: THE UNIQUE SITUATION OF BLACK WOMEN
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 2006 , pp. 449 - 461
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© 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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