Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace

Author:Michele Wallace [Wallace, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

… throughout the entire span of her existence on American soil, the Negro woman has been alone and unprotected, not only socially but psychologically as well. She has had to fend for herself as if she were a man; being black, even more so. I am not implying that the Negro woman has become frigid or “masculine.” In fact, she is potentially, if not already, the most sexual animal on this planet. It is not frigidity that I am describing. It is rigidity. And it has been this quality of austerity in the Negro woman which has enabled her to survive what few other women have ever lived through…. (Hernton, Sex and Racism in America.)

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