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The elite crusaders emphasized chastity as the key means of throwing off the degrading sexual stereotypes they inherited from slavery. ”60 With little power to influence white behavior in the era of Jim Crow, black club women and churchwomen relied on black women’s moral improvement as the most feasible weapon for challenging sexual exploitation and vilification. The race and sex inequalities of the time left little opportunity for these women to defeat the myth of sexual wantonness by creating their own emancipated sexual ethics.
If Malcolm doesn’t introduce me, they can’t come to me as an individual and say hello. 43 Through the perpetuation of degrading sexual stereotypes, the long shadow of slavery links white slave masters’ use of black women as property to Sarita’s sense of being treated as property by black men. Sexual Silence and the Politics of Respectability In the face of these explicit displays of black female sexuality is an acute secrecy surrounding black women’s subjective sexual experiences. Paradoxically, perhaps the most common scholarly observation about black female sexuality is the silence surrounding it.
Pdf (accessed October 4, 2009). ” See Linda Green, “United Methodist Church Supports Reparations for African Americans,” May 7, 2004, United Methodist News Service, http://archives. ptid=17&mid=4711 (accessed October 4, 2009). Also in 2004, the Presbyterian Church (USA) “adopted the report of the Task Force to Study Reparations,” which states: “The point is not to indict any particular group of people for such atrocities. Rather, as members of the same body, the body of Christ, we must all bear equal responsibility for the sins of our past.