This document discusses representations of black men and women in media through the work of bell hooks. It examines negative stereotypes of black men as brutes, rapists, and unintelligent. hooks argues these stereotypes make it difficult for black men to reject patriarchal codes of masculinity. Stereotypes of black women as "angry" or promiscuous also undermine their self-concept. The document analyzes how black identities are often imposed through racist and sexist lenses rather than appreciated for who they are.

1. MOCK REVISION

2. EXAMPLE EXAM QUESTION
• How have messages been communicated through
representations in your set text and unseen text?
of black women
of black men
of children
of the police
of America

3. ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES

4. BLACK MEN
• In what ways are black men stereotyped by the
media?
• What roles continue to be synonymous with black
masculinity?
• What is hegemonic hypermasculinity?
• Where do we see positive images of black men or role
models?
• Why is hegemonic masculinity a concern?

11. #IFTHEYGUNNEDMEDOWN

13. “The history of the black
male body begins in the
United States with
projections, with the
imposition onto that
body of white racist sexist
pornographic sexual
fantasies. Central to this
fantasy is the idea of the
black male rapist.”
– bell hooks

17. • “Seen as animals,
brutes, natural born
rapists, and
murderers, black men
have had no real
dramatic say when it
comes to the way
they are
represented.” – bell
hooks

18. • “More than any other group of men in our society
black males are perceived as lacking in intellectual
skills. Stereotyped via racism and sexism as being
more body than mind, black males are far more
to be affirmed in imperialist white supremacist
capitalist patriarchy for appearing to be dumb or as
we called it growing up in the fifties, appearing to be
slow (meaning not quite bright).”
– bell hooks

19. • “It is not easy for males,
young or old, to reject
the codes of patriarchal
masculinity”
-bell hooks

21. KEY TERMS
• machismo
• masculinity
• hypermasculinit
y
• toxic masculinity

22. BLACK WOMEN
• The ‘angry black woman’
• The ‘Sapphire’ caricature
• “Many people have difficulty
appreciating black women as we
are because of eagerness to
impose an identity upon us based
on any number of negative
stereotypes. Widespread efforts to
continue devaluation of black
womanhood make it extremely
difficult and oftentimes impossible
for the black female to develop a
positive self-concept. ” – bell
hooks

23. BLACK WOMEN
• The Jezebel
• “Many people have difficulty
appreciating black women as we
are because of eagerness to
impose an identity upon us based
on any number of negative
stereotypes. Widespread efforts to
continue devaluation of black
womanhood make it extremely
difficult and oftentimes impossible
for the black female to develop a
positive self-concept. ” – bell
hooks