Mammy: this is the Aunt Jemima black woman. She's overweight, a mother figure, and she has no sex appeal. She comes off very happy with her life of faithful service to white people. She's very happy-go-lucky, and has a big heart.
The Help (Professor Williams' favorite movie) displayed the "Mammy" stereotype.
Throughout the film, we see these African American maids caring for white children with as much care and love that they would for their own children.
Jezebel: she's named after an evil queen in the Bible. She's a promiscuous woman who wants sex all the time. She also uses sex to draw men in to get what she wants.
Monster's Ball - Monster's Ball has a fifteen minute sex scene between Halle Berry and Billy-Bob Thornton. It's a prime example of a woman using sex to get what she wants.
Sapphire: she loves confrontation, she constantly puts people down, and makes everything into a fight. She is an overbearing, hard and undesirable woman who drives men away – and so winds up alone.
Precious- Mary, played by Mo'Nique is a verbally, physically and mentally abusive mother who strives on putting Precious down and making her feel like she's nothing.
Sapphire example : Precious Staircase Scene
Monster's Ball - Leticia (Halle Berry) struggles with money and raising her son, especially his obesity. She constantly knocks him down for being overweight.
Spike Lee is notorious for showing women in a negative light, and specifically leans towards Jezebel.
Bamboozled - it comes out that Sloan slept with Delacroix to get the job as his assistant
She's Gotta Have it - Nola Darling has multiple sex partners
She Hate Me - a man begins a a business and impregnates several lesbians for profit because they want to have children
Girl 6 - she is out of work and desperate for money, and decides to take a job as a phone-sex operator.
Do the Right Thing - Tina is a sex object (the ice-cube scene)
School Daze - shows females going through their "college school years"
He Got Game - the two characters Dakota Burns and LaLa Bonilla are complete sex objects in this film, and Lee even throws in a nice threesome for Ray Allen sparked on by two white girls at Tech University.
Overall, the vast majority of African American women (and all women) in Lee's films fit the Jezebel stereotype, and are promiscuous women who have a lot of sex, and usually use the sex to get what they want.
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