Jasmine’s Reviews > The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class > Status Update

Side note: I appreciate the author capitalizing the "B" in Black 🖤.

'...That by being SALA (single and living alone) in the Black middle class, they are breaking the established norms or respectability politics."

"When Black women display themselves on their own terms, they are engaging in disrespectability projects ."

- Brittney Cooper, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies.

“While the “educated Black bitches” defies some stereotypes, they validate others with their unstable and troubled relationship lives. As domineering matriarchs, “educated Black bitches”, emasculate their often unemployed male partners by wielding their money, power and sexuality as weapons of control and treating their relationships as sexual conquests.”

“Sociologist Maryann Erigha, in examining the controlling images of black women in romantic films, argues that while there has been some progress overtime in the media, middle-class Black women have historically been cast in a negative light as “educated Black bitches” who “cannot find partners because they work too much have un appealing traits or do not support men effectively.” “