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Racialized Sexual Myths Against Black Women

The persistence and challenges of racialized sexual myths against Black women, including their origins from slavery-era and colonial tropes, and the strategies Black women use to contest these myths.

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Jan 29, 2026

How do Black women discuss and challenge racialized sexual myths within their communities?

and contest racialized sexual myths—Jezebel, hypersexuality, the “strong” or unemotional woman—through community discourse, cultural production, institutional advocacy, and everyday resistance; these ...