Black Women&#039;s Portrayals on Reality Television

Donnetrice C. Allison

doi:10.5771/9781498519335

Summary

This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in current reality television. Audiences are presented with a multitude of images of Black women fighting, arguing, and cursing at one another in this manufactured world of reality television. This perpetuation of negative, insidious racial and gender stereotypes influences how the U.S. views Black women. This stereotyping disrupts the process in which people are able to appreciate cultural and gender difference. Instead of celebrating the diverse symbols and meaning making that accompanies Black women's discourse and identities, reality television scripts an artificial or plastic image of Black women that reinforces extant stereotypes. This collection's contributors seek to uncover examples in reality television shows where instantiations of Black women's gendered, racial, and cultural difference is signified and made sinister.

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Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-1932-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-1933-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 262
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1 High Tea, Church Hats, Pastor Wives, and Friendships No access
2. 2 The God in Me No access
3. 3 From 1990s Girl to Hip-Hop Wife No access
4. 4 Are Black Women Loud? No access
5. 5 Can’t Have It All No access
1. 6 Is She Strong or Just a b!@*#? No access
2. 7 The “Tyra Tyrade” No access
3. 8 A Critical Analysis of Black Womanhood in NBC’s The Apprentice No access
1. 9 Dehumanized and Empowered? No access
2. 10 The “Down Ass Bitch” in the Reality Television Show Love and Hip Hop No access
3. 11 Real Housewives or Real Lies? No access
Conclusion No access Pages 233 - 242
Index No access Pages 243 - 254
About the Editor No access Pages 255 - 256
About the Contributors No access Pages 257 - 262