"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.
