There’s the Sapphire caricature from “Amos ’n’ Andy,” the emasculating shrew who is rude, meanspirited and prone to fits of rage.
There’s the welfare queen — a stereotype popularized during Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign — rooted in the toxic combination of promiscuity and work avoidance.
And of course, there’s the idea of the angry Black woman, a stereotype that often overlaps and amplifies others.
In the American psyche, it’s the Miss Millie story line from Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” about someone so blinded by a conception of her own virtue that it doesn’t register when she condescends.
She fully believes that it is her right and that her request, politely spoken, must be honored.
Persons:
“ Amos ’, Andy, —, Ronald Reagan’s, mammy, Millie, Alice Walker’s “, Sofia
Organizations:
Sofia
Locations:
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