By Jasmine Browley ·Updated March 17, 2022
Mammy, Sapphire, and Jezebel.
These three reductive archetypes of Black women have been reinforcing stereotypes in the US for many, many years. They started in slavery and continue to show up in media depictions of us to this day.
Punctuated by either submissive, sassy and/or oversexulized characteristics, these images have greatly influenced the way the world sees us–not only in entertainment mediums, but in
