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The Fictionalization of the Black Experience: The Presence and Absence of Black Femininity
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Diaz, Emiliano F.
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Spring 2025
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2025
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This paper explains the roots of the misrepresentation of Black women in media and how this affects the Black woman's presence in and absence from the world. The paper seeks to interpret how a Black woman's marginalized state affects her consciousness and sense of self, and how the Black woman can free herself from viewing herself through the lens of her oppressors. This paper expresses that, by taking control of her essence and creating her own reality, the Black feminine can create her own sense of self separate from the caricatures made of her, most commonly the Mammy, Sapphire, and Jezebel. This paper applies women's blues as a possible route to liberation and analyzes the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sadiya Hartman, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, and other thinkers, critiquing whether their theories are broad enough to include the complexities of Black female consciousness.
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