“In the media and in the public realm a vociferous and sustained battle against respectability politics may have obscured the powerful and problematic influences of mass mediated representations, which for the most part rely on controlling images of black women's sexuality. And the neoliberal attempt to privatize and consolidate the popular terrain has encouraged us to consume mass mediated expressions as if they were resistant popular ones… It also dovetails with market consumption desires stoked by consumerism, co-opts the language of black radicalism or of black feminism, but not the struggle itself.”

The Annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman'77, P'06, P'09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies

"Black Feminism, Popular Culture and Respectability Politics," a lecture by Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana Studies and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Presented by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

Brown University