{"id":1994,"date":"2018-04-13T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:35:39","slug":"why-are-black-bodies-hypersexualized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/13\/why-are-black-bodies-hypersexualized\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are black bodies hypersexualized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04132018-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1972\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04132018-8-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"Why are black bodies hypersexualized?\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why are black bodies hypersexualized?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are many thoughtful, scholarly takes on this problem in books in our collection: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-af-am-sexualized\">bit.ly\/BC-af-am-sexualized<\/a>. It&#8217;s quite likely an old stereotype with its ugly roots in the slavery era, when exaggerated black sexuality was employed to coerce &amp; control sexual behavior, to distract from the systemic rape of black women by slaveowners, and to justify lynchings as a threat to control black men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many thoughtful, scholarly takes on this problem in books in our collection: bit.ly\/BC-af-am-sexualized. It&#8217;s quite likely an old stereotype with its ugly roots in the slavery era, when exaggerated black sexuality was employed to coerce &amp; control sexual behavior, to distract from the systemic rape of black women by slaveowners, and to justify &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/13\/why-are-black-bodies-hypersexualized\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are black bodies hypersexualized?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}