Introduction to Body Language

fascination with the black body

she became keenly aware of her blackness nearly every second of every day

counting black bodies

<p>herself</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>racialized, fetishized, romanticized, demonized, infantilized, criminalized, dehumanized, sexualized, criticized, ostracized, ritualized, and prized</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>sneered or scrunch their noses disapprovingly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>&quot;Da Butt&quot; by Experience Unlimited</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They pretended they weren't bothered</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Saartjie Baartman</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She would earn a fortune with her body</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author became keenly aware of her blackness nearly every second of every day in America, unlike in Ghana where she was not aware of it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author saw an assurance that she would not disappear, and that the sea of whiteness into which she had been submerged would not swallow her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author got into the habit of counting black bodies in classrooms, on buses, at parks and beaches, wherever two or more were gathered.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The black girls at the narrator's school danced to 'Ebony and Ivory' by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The black body was racialized, fetishized, romanticized, demonized, infantilized, criminalized, dehumanized, sexualized, criticized, ostracized, and prized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The white girls disapproved of the plump lips, flat and broad noses, and big butts in black girls' bodies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Saartjie Baartman became the ultimate icon of racial inferiority because she had a big butt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The pride celebrated by black people often didn't go below the surface, and those who didn't fit into society's standard of beauty felt the sting of exclusion and inferiority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>William Dunlop failed to tell Saartjie Baartman that she would earn a fortune with her body when he persuaded her to go with him to England.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The black girls pretended they weren't bothered and promenaded around the hallways, shaking their butts to the rhythm of Experience Unlimited's go-go classic, 'Da Butt.'</p> Signup and view all the answers