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Jezebel Stereotype
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All of these images show black women as sexually willings characters often inviting of sexual objectification.
Another novel cover where a black women is shirtless and portrayed as inferior and helpless to a white man.
This is the cover of a novel in which a black women is portrayed again naked and vulnerable to be objectified to the white man. Images like this lead to rape of black women being justified by white men who believe it to be, " impossible to rape women that promiscuous."
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This image wanted to portray the availability of black women to men, especially white men. The way the white (probably colonizer) is handling the black women is meant to show the dominance that white men have over black women. Black women are portrayed as objects.
Enslaved black women were characterized as sensual, lascivious and lewd as a justification for their rape at the hands of their owners.
The idea that black women were naturally and inevitably sexually promiscuous was reinforced by several features of the slavery institution.
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"Nakedness, especially among women in the 18th and 19th centuries, implied lack of civility, morality, and sexual restraint even when the nakedness was forced. White women wore clothing over most of their bodies. The contrast between the clothing reinforce the beliefs that white women were civilized, modest, and sexually pure, whereas black women were uncivilized, immodest, and sexually abberant"“The Jezebel Stereotype.” The Jezebel Stereotype - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University. Accessed December 11, 2019. https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/jezebel/index.htm.
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There have been many drawings and caricatures made that are based on Sara Baartman. In these drawing the buttocks are exaggerated and drawn large. In this drawing the artist was trying to make a point that the buttocks are so big that a small child can ride on top of them. This is done to make a point that Black people are infererior and dehumanizes black women.
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Sara 'Saartjie' Baartman was born in 1789 and was bought by Europeans who would use her as a domestic servant and 'entertainment purposes'. Sara's large buttocks and skin coloring made her the object of fascination by the colonial Europeans. She was taken across Europe and put on display in a cage naked and people would come from various parts of Europe to see her.
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