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- Title
Pigtails, Ponytails, and Getting Tail: The Infantilization and Hyper-Sexualization of African American Females in Popular Culture.
- Authors
DAGBOVIE-MULLINS, SIKA A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the infantilization and hyper-sexualization of African-American women and girls in U.S. popular culture. Particular focus is given to the relationship between the cultural tropes of the sexy schoolgirl and the black male pimp. It is suggested that black women's casting in submissive, childlike roles in music videos supports cultural assumptions that black girls are consenting adults in sexual matters, and that the pimp trope reinforces these notions.
- Subjects
AFRICAN Americans in popular culture; BLACK women; GIRLS' sexual behavior; BLACK children; WOMEN in popular culture; PIMPS; BLACK people; CHILDREN'S sexual behavior; HUMAN sexuality
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2013, Vol 46, Issue 4, p745
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jpcu.12047