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The Opposing views of Tara Hunter and Darlene Clark Hine

 

" (Hunter 179) On the other hand, Hine's article had a lot to do with fear. African American women had a constant fear and were not able to dance in a sexual way or a way that expresses their feelings for fear of being raped: .
             "To suggest that black women deliberately developed a culture of dissemblance implies that they endeavoured to create, and were not simply reacting to, widespread misrepresentations of themselves in white minds. Clearly, black women did not possess the power to eradicate negative social and sexual images of their womanhood."(Hine 184).
             Through this quote it is quite evident the difference in opinion between Hunter and Hine. Hunter believed that the dances performed by African American women were free expressions and did portray a more sexualized dance. The images of African American women as being hypersexual, in Hunter's opinion were that of free expression and women danced as a form of release from the pressures surrounding them. Hine on the other hand believed that African American women did not have the ability to stop these negative images that in part came from the dancing. In other words, Hunter believed that African American women were portraying the sexual images freely through dance and Hine believed that the sexual image could not be stopped. "The most common, and certainly the most compelling, motive for running, fleeing, or migrating was a desire to retain or claim sexual freedom for themselves and freedom from slavery from their children." (Hine 182) This is were there is a major inconsistency within the two articles. Was the dancing done by the African American women not a form of sexual freedom? Were they not able to express themselves freely? This is where Hine and Hunter differ. Hunter viewed the dancing as a form of freedom and expression and Hine did not see it as such.
             Darlene Clark Hine and Tara Hunter present opposing views on African American women's ability to express themselves through fashion.


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