I was really excited with the presentation on Beyonce. I've talked about Sara Baartman in several of my other classes including intro to African & African American Studies. I also reference her a lot of the time to show the dehumanization of women, black women, especially. If you look in the media, there are soooo many examples of this.
ex. http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/08/19/another-photoshoot-places-a-black-woman-among-animals/
These images point out exoticism which is a problem in itself, just like with Baartman. Also, it shows them looking very "primitive" in their clothing or lack thereof. I think it's just history repeating itself over and over again. I would have never thought to compare this to Beyonce, however.
The couple of problems that I had with the Beyonce video was that people always give her props for being "curvy," I did not see any curves whatsoever on her body. She looked like the same tiny twig to me that the media feeds us that we should look like.
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