The Possessive Investment in Whiteness will be used to show the racial oppression of African American females. Portrayed as sexual deviants, bad Black mothers, and drug addicted mothers that are punished by racist drug policies following the introduction of crack cocaine to inner-city communities. These racial policies of oppression imposed on African American women are documented in Dorothy E. Roberts’s “Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and The Right of Privacy” and will be compared to similar punishment faced by women in Patricia Hill Collins’s article: "Get Your Freak On: Sex, Babies and Images of Black Feminity." In contrast Roberts’s article concentrates on the racist treatment of black drug addicted mothers, but delves into the mythological sexual deviations of Black women in explaining the history of the oppression of Black women. Whereas Collins’s focus is sexual deviations, exploitation, and the denigration of Black women in the media, while also touching on drug addicted mothers.
The Possessive Investment in whiteness in the United States is “more than the product of private prejudices, whiteness emerged as a relevant …show more content…
Their looseness leads to the rape white women by the Black man (Roberts 1991, 1439). While Collins construct the myth of “bad black mother” as an abusive, extremely bitchy, drug user that neglects their children (Collins 2004, 131). Finally the drug addicted women of Roberts’s article are weak and vulnerable to the biases and abuses of a legal system invested in whiteness, whereas Roberts include images of strong “Black bitches” in Missy Elliot, Pam Grier, Sister Souljah, and other Black female entertainers that “depict themselves as independent, strong, and self-reliant agents of their own desire” (Roberts 1991,
The Possessive Investment in whiteness in the United States is “more than the product of private prejudices, whiteness emerged as a relevant …show more content…
Their looseness leads to the rape white women by the Black man (Roberts 1991, 1439). While Collins construct the myth of “bad black mother” as an abusive, extremely bitchy, drug user that neglects their children (Collins 2004, 131). Finally the drug addicted women of Roberts’s article are weak and vulnerable to the biases and abuses of a legal system invested in whiteness, whereas Roberts include images of strong “Black bitches” in Missy Elliot, Pam Grier, Sister Souljah, and other Black female entertainers that “depict themselves as independent, strong, and self-reliant agents of their own desire” (Roberts 1991,