Black Feminist Theory Comic: The controlling images of Black women as Other

Collins, P. H. (2000). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd edn.. London: Routledge.

"Like everyone else, African-American women come to understand the workings of intersecting oppressions without obvious teaching or conscious learning.  The controlling images of Black women are not simply gradfter onto existing social institutions but are so pervasive that even though the images themselves change in popular imagination, Black women's portrayal as the Other persists." (p. 88)

The newpaper comic featuring Torchy Brown was created by Jackie Ormes in the early 1950s.  Find out more about Torchy and Jackie by clicking here.