Iconic: Decoding Images of the Revolutionary Black Woman

by Lakesia D. Johnson

Angela Davis, Pam Grier, Alice Walker, Michelle Obama. Revolutionary black women have evoked strong reaction throughout American history. Magazines, political campaigns, music, television, and movies have relied upon deep-seated archetypes and habitually cast strong, countercultural black women as mammies and sexual objects. In Iconic Lakesia Johnson explores how this belittling imagery is imposed by American media, revealing an immense...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602586446
• ISBN13: 9781602586444
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.2"