Hello, I am Samaria Jones, a multi-media artist.

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I am Not What You Call Me

I Am Not What You Call Me is about the stereotypes and labels that are placed on black women in media and film and how harmful they are to the overall image of black women. I put these specific actresses in this piece because the roles that they were cast into depict black women as either aggressive, meek, controlling, power-hungry, angry, and/or desperate. This will eventually be a continued series featuring characters that I feel have positively represented black women in film.

List of Actresses, Characters, and Movie Left to Right

Top Row: Octavia Spencer as Minny Jackson in The Help; Keke Palmer as Alice in Alice; Regina King as Lisa Whitfield-Moore in This Christmas (2007); Lynn Whitfield as Brandi Web in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Middle Row: Jill Scott as Sheila Jackson in Why Did I Get Married

Bottom Row: Kimberly Elise, Helen McCarter in Diary of a Mad Black Woman; Angela Basset as Bernadine Harris in Waiting to Exhale; Whoopi Goldberg as Celie in The Color Purple; Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon in Empire

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