“The crucial problem with the negative images of African American women in today’s society is not merely the overabundance of these images, but rather the absence of equal amounts of alternative, positive images.
These images are damaging because they limit African American women’s choices by excluding other options. Therefore, the representations of these women in the music videos depict the oversexual, deviant image of the African American woman which society crafted during slavery and has systematically perpetuated (Littlefield, 299).”
Reduced to only a body 