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The myth of the Angry Black Woman is a scandal of white supremacy

In a much-critiqued review of the new TV series How to Get Away with Murder, New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley introduced award-winning super-producer Shonda Rhimes by suggesting that she should call her autobiography “How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman”. The clichéd piece, which Stanley later said was intended to “praise Shonda Rhimes for pushing back so successfully on a tiresome but insidious stereotype”, was misguided and tone-deaf – but Stanley is hardly the first (and probably won’t be the last) white woman to demean a black woman with back-handed praise.

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Publicada em: 22/09/2014

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