Black Looks

[seeingred]

I've just read a terrific essay called "Black Looks", by Jacqui Roach and Petal Felix, from the 1989 collection The Female Gaze (cite below). They ask: "Is there a black female gaze?" In an overwhelmingly White population, non-White people tend to be excluded, marginalised, stereotyped, and generally treated as "the other" or a "problem". When

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[jvowles]

I suppose the "black voices tend not to be female" thing skips right over the USA

[seeingred]

Surely it's not a shock that a 1989 essay about British culture doesn't mention Oprah. :-) The authors' point is that female Black voices are beginning to be heard in the UK; with Oprah's show debuting in 1986, I guess the same was true for the US.

I've read the Boondocks comic strip on US visits, and it's a hoot! I'd love to see the series.