Mama's baby papa's maybe

Hortense Spillers

AS A WOMAN IT IS HARD TO BE AS A WOMAN IT IS HARD TO BE AS A WOMAN IT IS HARD TO BE YOURSELF? YOURSELF? YOURSELF?

Spiller's "Mama's baby Papa's maybe" Is about the way "American Grammer" has misgendered black women since the beginning. Since the trans-Atlantic trade black women were never looked at as women they were looked at as "flesh". Society has always said since slavery the absence of the father was the mother's and daughter's fault. So, since the father is not there the failure of the children is the mother's fault. "Captive" women in a zone of non-being.

TALWAYSWOMENFAULT? TALWAYSWOMENFAULT? TALWAYSWOMENFAULT?

During the trade, they saw black women as just a body, for their sexual desires, and whatever else they wanted because black women were just "property". The separation of families was a "master" decision so it was never willingly. Black women were always looked at as "dominant" because women were still denied their ability to function within the femininity by being denied both the home and their children, the beginnings of the slave trade, the displacement of African-Americans and the importance of the female were never entirely regained even after the middle passage.