1. Digital Portfolio: Nai’lah Rowe and Alicia Jiggetts
Angry Black Women
Digital Portfolio: Nai’lah Rowe and Alicia Jiggetts

2. What do think of when you hear the term “Angry Black Woman?”

3. Mad vs. Angry Mad: mentally ill; insane
Angry: having a strong feeling of or showing annoyance, displeasure, or hostility
Being an angry black woman is about expressing emotion.
Being a mad black woman is about acting irrationally through anger.

4. Defining an Angry Black Woman
An African American female who has been exposed to many players, liars, manipulators and cheats that her original gentle loving caring, nurturing, spirit has been diminished to a blackened heart, hard exterior and bitter disposition at times to the point of no recovery. (Urban Dictionary)

5. Reasons Why Black Women are “Angry”

6. Reasons Why Black Women are “Angry” (continued)
Being thought of as “the help.”
Touching our hair.
Appropriating our style.
Being bashed by black men.
Black male silence.
Constantly being blamed.

7. The Angry Black Woman in Media and Pop Culture
Tyler Perry, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”
Beyoncé, “Irreplaceable”; Lemonade Album
Jasmine Sullivan, “Bust Your Windows”
Melanie Fiona, “Somebody Come Get Me”
Love and Hip Hop
Real Housewives

8. The Impact of the Angry Black Woman Stereotype
The stereotype is used as a controlling mechanism to silence black women.
Reduces having an informed opinion to having an “attitude problem.”
Further separates black women from other races.

9. Black Students at UR Respond to the Mad Black Woman Stereotype
“This stereotype leads to black women being perceived as dangerous...Whenever I walk by non-women of color they often clutch their purses or look behind them, as if I’m predacious.”
“I don’t know…ask Tyler Perry.”
“All the black women I’ve fallen for are angry...It’s not necessarily their fault, society has so much going against them that the anger builds up.”
“The angry black woman is a woman who is fed up with all of the things she’s juggling and she finally lashes out by being loud.”
Black Students at UR Respond to the Mad Black Woman Stereotype

10. Works Cited
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D’Oyley, Demetria Lucas. "6 Reasons Why Black Women Have Every Right to Be Angry." The Root. N.p., 23 Sept Web. 19 Nov
Ferguson, Anni. "Forced to Shut up or Be Seen as an 'angry Black Woman'" BBC. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov
"Cathartic Writing: Dressing Up as a Mad Black Woman." Emory Cinémathèque. N.p., 30 Apr Web. 19 Nov
Kelley, Blair L.M. "Here’s Some History Behind That ‘Angry Black Woman’ Riff the NY Times Tossed Around." The Root. N.p., 25 Sept Web. 19 Nov
K-Hov. "Angry+Black+Woman." Urban Dictionary. N.p., 8 Sept Web. 19 Nov
Pittman, Taylor. "What Black Women Think Of The Phrase ‘Angry Black Woman’." Huffington Post. N.p., 23 Mar Web. 19 Nov
Sinclair, Leah. "The 'angry Black Girl' Stereotype Shows Just How Little We Are Respected | Leah Sinclair." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 08 Oct Web. 19 Nov
Staff, Seattlepi.com. "‘The Real Housewives of New York’: Panty Raid." Seattle Pi. N.p., 27 Apr Web. 19 Nov
Watchcut. "One Word - Episode 36: Angry Black Woman (Black Women)." YouTube. YouTube, 21 Mar Web. 19 Nov