Essay On The Mammy Image

As mentioned, Stuart Hall was a Jamaican born cultural theorist and sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom that our decoding of media images are very much influenced by the guidance of “dominant” social ideologies. Throughout the research and studies i really came to realize how correct Mr Hall was on his idea on how he believes that videos are all encoded, keying on race, but also, gender and sexuality. Doing much research on the "Mammy" stereotype of black women and the "Greaser" stereotype of latino men i came to a conclusion on believing his views of masculinity and femininity. Throughout this paper i will talk more about the differences and describe the way the film subjects the main two topics and how it keys in on race, gender, and sexuality. Greasers, who were also known as, “Hood”, …show more content…
This is one of the most prevalent image of african american women is the Mammy image. The mammy image was known as a fat, asexual, and happy to serve as a master. After slavery they began to desexualize the image of black women, almost like a “pet”.. During slavery the black women was purely a sexual human being but not after. The society we live in people don 't realize the mainstream media and Hollywood of the image. The respect for femininity they had for the Mammy was horrible. They showed defeminized to the Mammy and the amount of hate, and non dominant character the mammy was, who derived from the kind of thinking that resist controlling images. In difference white women were known as pure, domestic and submissive and white men were the ones who controlled the societal images. Many do not realize the hate and hard times that black women had to go through during the Mammy Era and all the seuxialty and defeminiziam that they had to live with. The fat black women was a picture of condemnation and was a symbol in society know more as a “joke” then a human