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| Courtesy IMDB.com |
Yes black ladies, they are still at it!
The only black woman among the team of actresses
of all races from the movie Pitch Perfect 2 and she gets to play 'the
butch'. Look how she is squatting in the picture. You can barely
see her as a female, she is the 'male' of the group
essentially. It's all very deliberate and in line with broader
representations of black women. And if it was done without conscious
thought then realize how strong and persistent the construction of
black women as masculine continues to be. Indeed it appears not
to have waned since the time of Sojourner Truth who asked in her
historic speech in 1851 of the same title, 'Ain't I a
woman' . Actually this trailer image has half the
number of women of the other fuller poster were I counted at least 12
different actresses, each of them allowed to look
leggy, feminine and longhaired except the black one among them
(they do all they can to keep Rebel Wilson contd