== This article needs to be seriously cleaned up == 

 If you read this article from beginning to end, all you get is a series of undergraduate crit-lit condemnations that often contradict one another and shed no insight or historical perspective on the subject. First she is masculine and a threat to white people, and then she is docile and feminine and an exaggeration of the female physique aimed at making white people feel safe. What white people? Slave owners? Children of Slave owners? 20th century Americans? This article is just a jumbled mess.