Wilhelmina Minney – Contemporary Racism

#NotYourMule

Wilhelmina Minney — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 16:05:46 +0000

This idea that Black women are the perpetual mules of everyone else has been ingrained in our society. We see it in the media when all we see are Black women marching for Black lives. We see it portrayed in the media with Black women playing the help, the nanny, the supporting motherly character, or the best friend used simply to illuminate the main actress’s character. The image of the Black woman has been, historically ...

Gender, Queerness, and Performative Masculinity as an Escape: An Analysis of Moonlight

Wilhelmina Minney — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:42:28 +0000

In her essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe”, Hortense Spillers argues that the gendered configuration for Black people through slavery and its afterlife is “the dehumanizing, ungendering, defacing project of African persons” (Ziyad, 2017). She points out that, historically, Black gender has not been used to indicate a shared womanhood or manhood with people within white society, but to highlight how black people are out of step with womanhood and manhood. Essentially, Black gender can never ...

Radical Black Love Is the Counternarrative

Wilhelmina Minney — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:02:46 +0000

Derald Wing Sue (2005) describes the masternarrative as white talk that “depicts historical and cultural themes of racial progress, of a fair and just society, of equal access and opportunity, of meritocracy, and of colorblindness.” This idea of reality, often held by well intending white people, is one that denies the harmful effects, both past and present, of racism and, thus, helps to perpetuate it. The perpetuation of racism and prejudice can be depicted in ...