![]() ![]() She does so with an eye towards understanding how these ‘distorted images and painful stereotypes about black women’-the Jezebel, Sapphire and Mammy-that make America a crooked room for African-American women, can help us understand ‘how these stereotypes influence black women as political actors’ (p. She introduces one aspect of her research methodology that she utilises more fully later in the text: several focus groups of Black women who were given the task of identifying stereotypes about Black women and then discussing how they combat them. ![]() In Chapter 1, the author explains that she uses the study as a metaphor for Black women's experience in the United States, as standing in a ‘crooked room’ and trying to navigate their way through the stereotypes that circumscribe their lives. ![]() The text hinges on a post-World War II cognitive psychology study about field dependence, in which ‘subjects were placed in a crooked chair in a crooked room and then asked to align themselves vertically’ (p. ![]()
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