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African Jezebel: Myth Formation and Stereotypes of Black Female Promiscuity within the Context of the Colonial Caribbean Islands

@inproceedings{Granowski2014AfricanJM,
  title={African Jezebel: Myth Formation and Stereotypes of Black Female Promiscuity within the Context of the Colonial Caribbean Islands},
  author={Tomasz G. Granowski},
  year={2014}
}

• Tomasz G. Granowski
• Published 2014
• Art

For many scholars of women’s studies and Caribbean history, the notion of the African Jezebel has become a subject of long and heated dialogue. As a result, the divergent arguments have taken their forms, shaping and reshaping the individual and collective scholarly understanding of the subject matter. Within these divergent and sometimes undefined discourses, the misinterpretation of written information, combined with the predetermined notion about the character of African females, makes it difficult to achieve a unanimous consensus regarding the underlying causes of the formation of the African Jezebel myth.1 Whereas early historical writings and scholarly discourses on the causes behind the myth of hypersexual and immoral African female behavior focused primarily on the Europeans misunderstanding of the diverse African socio-cultural backgrounds, careful analysis of the primary and secondary sources suggests the political and the socio-economic genesis of the African Jezebel myth. To endeavor a description of black women’s promiscuity is to proceed with difficulty through divergent primary and secondary literature