Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood is packed with substantial empirical and theoretical material. The text is organized into six short chapters flanked by an introduction and conclusion. Author Marquita M. Gammage combines Africana womanism, Black feminism, and Media Studies in her analysis of visual media representations and the subsequent valuations of Black women and womanhood. The Introduction begins with a brief discussion of the damnation of Black womanhood in Western societies. Gammage summarizes for the reader W.E.B. DuBois’s view that the damnation of womanhood was tied to the devaluation of motherhood resulting from Western societies’ reductionist understanding of femininity. From the outset, Gammage charges that contemporary media are powerful and effective sites through which to perpetuate, recycle, and promote an “anti-Black woman agenda” thereby securing the continued dehumanization of Black people (1). Echoing DuBois, she argues that this agenda is informed by Western conceptions of femininity and the sexism and racism birthed through slavery to which Black women have been the primary targets. She highlights how few studies have charted the significance of this imagery of and for Black women and emphasizes that previous studies have also neglected culturally congruent analyses. Gammage outlines an Africana womanist theoretical methodology, presents the definitional contours of “damnation,” and closes with an overview of each of the six chapters. Gammage’s approach to Black womanhood privileges wholeness and is rooted in an Africana womanist conceptual framework, informed by the work of Clenora Hudson-Weems, Delores Aldridge, Pamela Yaa Asantewa Reed, and Nah Dove. In none defined

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审查媒体中黑人女性的表现：黑人女性的诅咒，Marquita M. Gammage

媒体中黑人女性的表现：黑人女性的诅咒充满了大量的经验和理论材料。全书分为六个简短的章节，两侧是引言和结论。作者 Marquita M. Gammage 将非洲女性主义、黑人女权主义和媒体研究结合在她对视觉媒体表现的分析以及随后对黑人女性和女性的评价中。引言首先简要讨论西方社会对黑人女性的诅咒。Gammage 为读者总结了 WEB DuBois 的观点，即女性的诅咒与西方社会对女性气质的简化理解导致的母性贬值有关。从一开始，Gammage 就指责当代媒体是强大而有效的网站，通过它可以延续，回收并促进“反黑人妇女议程”，从而确保黑人继续非人化 (1)。她与杜波依斯的观点相呼应，认为这一议程受到西方女性气质的概念以及通过奴隶制产生的性别歧视和种族主义的影响，黑人妇女一直是其主要目标。她强调了很少有研究能够描绘出这种黑人女性形象的重要性，并强调之前的研究也忽视了文化上的一致性分析。Gammage 概述了一种非洲女性主义的理论方法，提出了“诅咒”的定义轮廓，并以对六章中每一章的概述结束。Gammage 对待黑人女性的方法重视整体性，并植根于非洲女性主义的概念框架，由 Clenora Hudson-Weems、Delores Aldridge、Pamela Yaa Asantewa Reed 和 Nah Dove。在没有定义