The black body is something that
has been abused and stereotyped in America. These stereotypes are constantly
verified and spread by institutionalizing it and rationalizing it. While in
school, teachers and administrators use discourse to institutionalize different
names and stereotypes to kids at a young age. They cast a bad light which the
kids see as natural. The new media of today is a primary example of using that
language to rationalize their understanding of the black body. They use terms
like “thugs, felons, juveniles, gang members, etc.” to describe news of black
people when they get in trouble with the law. Creating a new perspective
towards the black body. Hyper sexualization of the black body provides
rationale for exploitation. During slavery, white people hypersexualized the
black body for exploitation and inferred their guilt. Saying that because of
this sexualization that black people wanted the exploitation that happened to
them. This is because in the bible, sex before marriage is a sin. When the
black body is hypersexualized, they wanted to make it seem like a sin and that
black people were at fault for their own sin. The black body has constantly
been viewed as dangerous. If the black body were free from oppression would it
be different? Is black freedom the right to cherished white property? In my
opinion the free black body and the dangerous black body are practically equivalent.
The free black body would be different, it would invade “white space”. That
threatens the social order that America has set in place through capitalism.
Capitalism needs an oppressor or a lower class. the free black body would not
only be threatening the lower class but going against all the ideology and
stereotypes that have been created towards black people. Do you think the
ideology of white space can be changed by allowing the free black body? The
dangerous black body is something that was created through stereotypes and discourse.
They see black people as dangerous animals with a dangerous drive for violence.
The media uses this prospective to
rationalize action of black people. One example of this is when they compare
black people to monkeys or gorillas. This rationalizes there understanding of
actions of black people. They also compare animalistic sex drives to black
people. This comparison of sex drives was used during slavery to rationalize white
owners raping black slaves saying they “wanted it”. In what was do you think
the black body is constructed in a negative light?
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