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Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women's and Girls' Innocence in the Public Imagination

Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women's and Girls' Innocence in the Public Imagination

Young, Kalima

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Black American StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 179360665X
ISBN13: 9781793606655
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 10 2024
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
To be considered innocent is to be viewed as vulnerable to harm and worthy of protection from harm. An innocent person's pain is recognized, acknowledged, and addressed. Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women's and Girls' Innocence in the Public Imagination interrogates contemporary media culture to illuminate the ways the intersections of anti-blackness and misogyny, i.e., misogynoir, converge to obscure public perceptions of Black women and girls as people with any claim to innocence. When pained images of Black female bodies appear on media devices, the socio-political responses are telling, not only in their lack of urgency, but also in their inability to be read empathetically. By examining viral videos, memes, and recent film and television, Kalima Young makes a striking case for the need to create a new Black feminist media studies framework broad enough to hold the complexity and agency of Black women and girls in a digital age invested in framing them as inherently adulterated and impure.

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