'If we continue to exclusively sell these images to the general public, we block out the opportunity to see our individualized representations and cut off our imagination for another reality, one that is instead aspirational' wearesophomore
There’s an urgency to see more young Black women at the center of coming of age films. In this battle for representation, we not only have to tackle the capitalist structure that prioritizes white narratives, but we also have to address the fact that for young Black women, coming of age experiences are not monolithic — and these stories ought to be directed by Black women, duh.
In comparison to white coming of age films, what is available as representation of Black women is often a story about a young girl from the hood, who might be sexually abused or lives with a neglectful mother or an absent father.
In fact, these are such common depictions of Blackness that white people don’t know how to react when they learn we didn’t all grow up that way. Author Roxane Gay talks about her experience attending the elite boarding school, Exeter, in Hunger, writing, “[The students] assumed all Black students came from impoverished backgrounds and lived in the inner city,” and that’s no surprise considering repetitive and damaging narratives about Blackness.
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