Analysis Of Jezebels By Kylie Jenner

Since the beginning of time, African American women have been seen as a valuable piece of property. Their masters sexually exploited black slave women because it was part of their job. If they refused the come on from the master, the women would be beat or raped and in some cases, both would happen. Black women had to be the nurturing type to the slave owner’s children, including and not limited to breastfeeding the newborns, cooking and cleaning and not being in the fields with the rest of the slaves. These women were called “mammies”, a maid or nanny in charge of the master’s children. During my research, I also found that some enslaved women were apart of a group called “Jezebels”. White men would rape these “jezebels” as many as three …show more content…
Just because Ms. Pearson is plus sized with a large buttocks and large breasts like Sarah Baartman does not mean that she should be treated differently. There are white women who are paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for larger breasts, larger buttocks, more fuller lips, especially the new trend that was started by Kylie Jenner, little sister of Kim Kardashian. Kylie Jenner’s new trend was to take a cup and put it around your lips to make them bigger. Black women and men have had large lips that are hereditary and “other races” trying to get them is just another effort to be “more black”. A white man driving Ms. Pearson around is sending “another clear racial signal” according to the article but if a black man was to drive her around, it would have be something said to the effects that it’s a clear sign that she is racist and try to take her …show more content…
It talks about how Black women freedom before and during Reconstruction in the South, being resistant of sexual oppression, economic oppression and trying to maintain her womanhood by any means necessary. It breaks down the myths and untold truths about the jezebels and mammy, “One of the most prevalent images of black women in Antebellum America was of a person governed almost entirely by her libido, a Jezebel character.” (Ar’n’t I A Woman, pg. 28-29) This is one of the most powerful statements that I read because no matter what, the Black woman was looked at as a promiscuous woman, no matter if she was raped and made to perform sexual acts against her will. White men would say that her sexual appeal made them want sex and once they tried to have sex with them, fighting the master was a sign that they were “lusting or feigning” for