The Black Body: A Social Analysis

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In this essay I will be discussing and analyzing the social construction, related group and self-perception of the female black body in the context of our current global society.
Before we start, the history of black females and their bodies was very unequal, painful and racist due to historical events such as slavery where their bodies where whipped and scarred if they did something wrong, also their black bodies were discriminated and judged by whites as fat, ugly or unusual, but in the black female’s tradition and culture their curves were a sign of beauty and perfection. That how ever has changed in our current society, where most black females are trying to look more like the western beauty ideal of being skinny and tall instead of their traditional bodily ideals of having big and curvy …show more content…

To form and create my theory I’ll be using the additional reading “The Black body in colonial and postcolonial Public discourse” from Learning Unit 2. In the text the author states that the blacks are defined as subhuman and that specifically the female black body was classified as a reproductive machine used by whites to create black workers for their farms (Frederico, S and Haugaa Engh, M. 2015, Pg. 13 Para. 4). That is what we call slavery against a race. To support my theory, according to my independently sourced relevant academic article (ISRAA) “The socially constructed status of black women in America: A critical analysis based on major works by black American sociologists”, a race is defined by the basis of a human’s physical appearance (D Williams, 2014, Pg. 7 Para. 2). My ISRAA also says that slavery was the consequence of the need to create an arrangement of inequality used to differentiate races. (D Williams, 2014, Pg.7 Para.

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