Out of the three guest lectures we had from our class's very own TA's, I found the idea of Intersectionality the most interesting as it was something that I haven't heard of before. As we have learned, the kind of discrimination that Black women have faced has its own distinct category. Black women face a mix of discrimination felt by Black men and women in general. What was interesting was the documentary that we saw in class that showed the detailed lives of black women in jails that were the subjects and examples of "Aggressives," the black women that were seen as responsible for turning Caucasian women over to lesbianism through aggressive sexual dominance. While I was thinking about it, I wondered if Black men have ever been put under the same label. Is it the female aspect that labels them as aggressive?
It is common knowledge from television, novels, and movies that criminals confined in penitentiaries resort to homosexuality to either satisfy their sexual desires or to establish dominance over the other inmates in order to create an elevated status for themselves. So then what is it that encouraged someone to give black women in penitentiaries their own label. Was this purely another baseless observation promoted by racism or was there something more to it?
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