Submission Purpose
Main Conference
Type of Proposal
Paper: Empirical
Abstract
Hollywood negatively depicts Black women, often minimizing or ignoring their character’s developmental milestones or self-actualization. Using Black Feminist Thought, an oppositional gaze was used to analyze their development in film.
Keywords
Black women, American film, adult development
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Andrews, J. L.,
&
McClain, A.
(2022).
The Lies You Tell: Disrupting the Dominant Depiction of Black Women in Film.
Adult Education Research Conference.
https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2022/papers/28
The Lies You Tell: Disrupting the Dominant Depiction of Black Women in Film
Hollywood negatively depicts Black women, often minimizing or ignoring their character’s developmental milestones or self-actualization. Using Black Feminist Thought, an oppositional gaze was used to analyze their development in film.
