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This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 September 2024. William Ray Norwood Jr. (born January 17, 1981), [ 1 ] known professionally as Ray J, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, television presenter, and actor. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Carson, California, he is the younger brother of singer and actress Brandy.
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1][2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the ...
Originated among Black people to refer to an unreasonable White woman. The term became popular on Black Twitter as a meme used to describe White women who "tattle on Black kids' lemonade stands." These days often used by people of all races. "Okay, stop being a Karen."
The oppositional gaze is a term coined by bell hooks the 1992 essay The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators that refers to the power of looking. According to hooks, an oppositional gaze is a way that a Black person in a subordinate position communicates their status. hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that discusses the male gaze, Michel Foucault, and white feminism in film ...
ISBN. 0-89608-129-X. Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth 's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. hooks examines the effect of racism and sexism on black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements from suffrage to the 1970s. She argues that the convergence of sexism and racism ...
1. “Gaslighting is mind control to make victims doubt their reality.” — Tracy Malone 2. “Some people will label you as vindictive, unforgiving or even evil for not allowing them to hurt ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
The angry black woman stereotype is a racial stereotype of Black American women as pugnacious, poorly mannered, and aggressive. [1] Among stereotypes of groups within the United States, the angry black woman stereotype is less studied by researchers than the Mammy and Jezebel archetypes. [2][3] Carolyn West categorizes the Angry Black Woman ...