The idea that that Black peoples bodies where the focus of buying and selling is not new or surprising, but I never made the connection to the film industry specifically, but have thought about this more so connected to the music industry with appearances being such an important factor for selling and marketing music. Black artist like ice spice, Nicki Minaj, and Rihanna although talented in their musical abilities have notable styles and physical appearances that make them stand out in the music industry.

Reminds me of Amy in the passage quickly wiping her tear as she gets ready to take her photo at the police station. The strain that constantly having to switch between child and adult put on black girls is exhausting.

This reconstruction and diminishing of black pain and trauma is interesting in the sense that it is simply seen as a depiction of the ordinary black childhood when if depicted with a white character would be considered a rough and traumatic upbringing. Almost as if trauma is expected in the black childhood experience.

Similar depiction to the mammy and what was discussed earlier. The ideal relationship that black women (mammy) where to have with their white enslavers was one in which they accepted their captivity and where faithfully devoted to their enslavers while knowing their place, similarly the pickanine accepts its place in the wild and amongst poverty giving primitive wisdom to misguided white protagonist when needed. The magical and super wise black person giving and guiding the white protagonist is a trope so often seen in mainstream media which has had many variations for example the undatable but extremely rational black side character.

The name hushpuppy is an interesting choice for a name. I know hushpuppies as a food, I wonder if their is more to this choice of name and what could be it's racial implications.

"Always resistant to pain" How convenient is that! To appease their own quilt and potential conscious they make it so the black person is emotionless lacking human characteristics, and immune to either physical or emotional pain, once again cleverly finding a way to blame their own sick and twisted actions on the victims of their abuse.

The idea of adultifciation and it's effects found here. Black girl hood is unknown and undefinable in the eyes of white people because the audlification of black girls has left them in a state of limbo in terms of their youth and childhood. The questions comes that comes to mind is how can you expect a child to be a a child when they've been treated like an adult their whole life?

The idea that you can't be happy unless your white is an idea that is deeply ingrained into black girls seeing as from a very young age their blackness is criminalized while white people or those in proximity to whiteness have been made to believe that happiness is for them and will always be for them.

This goes back to the idea that black people and in this case black girls have to work harder, be perfect, show no signs of weakness and are not allowed the luxury to make a mistake otherwise they get no sympathy while their white counter parts are allowed to be mediocre and make mistakes without fear of being forever looked down upon.

The idea that the underbelly of "mainstream" black femininity is a horrible other worldly, animalistic form of femininity is another reiteration of the racist fear mongering used to justify the separation and poor treatment of black people.

This reminds me of the viewing and characterization of Amy in the television show the passage and how her "street smarts" was brought on by the anger she had towards her drug addicted mother and the forced independence she had to take on because of her "Irresponsible" parent.

This critique seems a little out of touch in the sense that is it a"ghetto tragedy" simply because he can not imagine the events in Precious actually occurring and only being stereotypes. Although stereotypes are present their is still a lot of truth in Precious that applies to realties many black girls and teens face.

This! Their is often relations with back characters (black girls) with no sign of commitment in sight or genuine care, but even worse they portray these black girls as being okay and accepting of the behavior which reinforces the idea that black girls and women take a more animalistic approach to sex. The idea that black girls deserve and even crave a genuine and pure love that isn't only based on sex is a rarity in film and media.

This is so prevalent! The idea that all black women and girls are having the same type of experience sexually has created this false monolith that has been packaged as this cultural thing that is shared among black girls everywhere when this is simply not true.

If not women what did white people consider black women to be? animals? if so how could they justify having relations with "animals" this whole logic falls apart once broken down. If it was that they where just hyper-sexualized women they are still considered women.

Justifying monstrosities by blaming the victim or claiming it wasn't real mass is manipulation at it's finest and something that is still ongoing.

Never truly allowed to explore and feel either.

You can either be promiscuous or a prude and nothing else. This stereotype is true for all women but like the reading states is especially forced upon black women and girls. Either made to be the mammy or the jezebel regardless of which one you're classified as you are still deemed unacceptable, and unlovable. Just another way to justify the villainization dismissal of black women. The mammy is too weak while the jezebel is to rebellious.

This is so striking! The idea that the black body create an internal struggle in the hearts of whites is something not talked about enough. In fetishizing black bodies the white mind ends up hating itself because it has been conditioned to believe that black bodies are not beautiful, or worthy, but instead disgusting and unlovable yet they are intrigued creating a self hate that they then deflect onto black people and black bodies.