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Fetishizing People of Color (History (Stereotypes (Black Buck or Jezebel…

- - - - Marginaliizng children who are not mixed race or "light skin", shows how far society's fetishization has gone. Society has wanted the light skin, babies with light eyes, and curly hair since the 'trend' started.
- - - - Terry Crews played Latrell Spencer in the 2004 movie "White Chicks". In the movie Crews character was the big black man who was overly obsessed with women, specifically white women. In one scene in movie at the beach Crews character approached the girls at the beach calling them "white chocolate".
        
        Terry Crews character was an example of the black buck. I didn't notice how weird it was that they put a big black man as the most sexual role in the movie until the learnings from this class. I find it interesting that he was always preying on white women because thats how people used to and still see black men. To this day there are still false accusations made towards black men by white women. People target black men as scary sexual beings because they've always been displayed that way, even in some of our favorite media.
    - - The latin lover is an example of fetishizing Latino men. This representation is interesting because Latino men and women have been represented a lot of different ways in media and film, a lot of their representations have been at low end jobs. Particularly for women, they have been sexual roles and then it was put onto the men as well. https://blogs.uprm.edu/film/writing-assignments/portrayals-of-latinos-in-us-film-and-television/
        
        The first latin lover that appeared in American film was Rudolph Valentino, an Italian born man that portrayed the "perfect" version of a Latino man.
        
        The latin lover always conquered women and his task at hand. He is always displayed as incredibly charming and smooth. He is always handsome and all his actions are romantic. This type of character appears most in melodramas. They use this character to portray the perfect type of Latin men but don't use Latino men to fill these roles. The people behind these movies want to portray immigrants as vile yet pleasant at the same time.
- - - - During slavery, the fetishization of black women helped justify slave masters raping slaves, painting black women as hyper sexual objects. Slave women were considered property, which made raping them legal. Often times, slave masters would offer promises in return for sexual acts.
      - Saartije Baartman is one of the most well-known black women whose bodies has been exploited. Saartije was from South Africa; once it was colonized by the dutch she was sold into sex slavery. Later she was taken on tours to European countries where her body was on display for entertainment. She was half-naked and known for her large buttocks. She was promised money but was never paid.
      - Black women's bodies are still fetishized today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8ZvgcU5LM
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7jbOSoKGQ
      - Asian women are also fetishized and viewed as submissive, following the stereotype of "The Jade Princess," or "China Doll," and non-asian people's attraction to asian women is often called "Yellow fever."
      - This was said by comedian Amy Schumer on Asain women, "Asian women are good at math, they have “naturally silky hair,” they cover their mouths modestly when they laugh “’cause they know men hate when women speak.” But trumping all of that? Asian women have “the smallest vaginas in the game," as a joke for on of her comedy shows.
      - The French writer Pierre Loti's 1887 novel, Madame Chrysanthème tells the story of a navel officer who goes to Nagasaki and has a temporary wife there. His requirements for the wife include, " A “little, creamy-skinned woman with black hair and cat’s eyes. She must be pretty and not much bigger than a doll.” The novel is peppered with details of “slim,” “graceful,” “dainty” “little women” with “delicate hands, miniature feet” and “natural skin of deep yellow,” who are the “exact types of the figures painted on vases.”
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuqa1qj6MrA
      - Another group of Women of color who are often fetishized and stereotyped are Latina women. For us, it's the "Spicy Latina," who has a fiery attitude that men find sexy. Latinas are also fetishized for full lips and curves (not to the extent of black women), and foreign accents.
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8uBitvYPc
      - In the 1940s, Hollywood films expanded to Latinx actors. However, the Latina women were always portrayed as the over sexualized, "spicy Latinas," always half naked and hot tempered. One of the most famous Latina actresses during this time were Carmen Miranda. She is best known for wearing tropical fruit on her head and showing her midriff, and spoke in a thick hispanic accent.
      - The problem with her depiction of Latinas is that, it condenses all hispanic culture into singular set of characteristics called Tropicalism. The tropical fruit and heavy accent, as well as festive and party people, only represents a portion of Latinas. Also, Miranda was Brazilian and didn't even speak Spanish; she spoke Portuguese, so her accent wasn't even authentic. Many Brazilians themselves had a problem with her representation of Latinos, because it wasn't at all accurate to Brazilian culture.
- - - - Asian women were deported if they were suspected of being sex workers which was a threat to white women because there was a lack of asian women for asian men to marry. Thats when antimiscegenation and anti interracial marriage expanded to include everyone, which then lead to the "Gentleman’s Act" keeping Japanese labor workers from getting a passport.
  - - - Jezebel: was sexual, not pure and had no self respect like the white women had, not satisfied with the black man, and was promiscuous. Black Buck: Sexual and had many sexual relations even with white women, smart, tall, strong, hot head
    - - Latin lover: sensual and manly, sexy, golden skin, accents that everyone loves to hear. Spicy senorita: sexy, feisty, sassy, hot tempered, tight body, wears tight clothes, broken English