Male activists deployed stereotypes of domineering Black women to police female assertiveness

Evidence

Whenever Angela Davis and two other women asserted themselves, the group’s racist patriarchs inevitably started reverberating the myths of Black womanhood, saying they were too domineering and were emasculating them. Kathleen Cleaver faced similar problems in the Black Panther Party, as did Frances Beal in her New York SNCC office. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1026

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Moynihan Report’s emasculation thesis and the patterns of stereotype deployment Kendi describes elsewhere.