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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Strong Black Woman of the Week: Melissa Harris-Perry

"Jim Crow was never like big fun in the kitchen."

Last night, Tulane Professor Melissa Harris-Perry appeared on the Colbert Report.  She was promoting her recent, critically-acclaimed book Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America [Yale University Press].  In it, she discusses the Jezebel stereotype, the Mammy stereotype (ahem, The Help), the Angry Black Woman stereotype, and, perhaps most importantly, the Strong Black Woman. 


 

You can buy the book here.   [Can't wait to read it!]