Analysis Of Freaky: The Sexuality Of African American Women In Popular Culture

The sexuality of African American females has been stigmatized by popular music and popular culture as an oddity by referencing them as freaks and bitches. The author says that “the term freak came to permeate popular culture to the point at which it is now intertwined with ideas about sexuality, sexual identities, and sexual practices. “Freaky” sex consist of sex outside the boundaries of normality” (121). In the past colonial westerners implied that African sexual abnormalities included sex with wild animals. No other term has come to be more demeaning and sexualizing for African American females than the word “Bitch.” The author suggest that “presenting Black women as bitches is designed to defeminize and demonize them” (123).