Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
For years, black women have endured the mainstream stereotypes of the Mammy,
the Jezebel, and the Sapphire.
Backtalk is a conversation about black women using their own language
translated into a graphic visual language. It examines ways in which black women are
active agents in the social scripting of their own identities. Their complexity is visualized
using a formal semiotic system based on their individual descriptions. This new visual
language allows black women to deconstruct the limiting categorizations mainstream
culture allows them, freeing participants from category-based expectations.
the Jezebel, and the Sapphire.
Backtalk is a conversation about black women using their own language
translated into a graphic visual language. It examines ways in which black women are
active agents in the social scripting of their own identities. Their complexity is visualized
using a formal semiotic system based on their individual descriptions. This new visual
language allows black women to deconstruct the limiting categorizations mainstream
culture allows them, freeing participants from category-based expectations.
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