![]() And this, you know, reflects the ways in which black bodies have historically been devalued in our labor market since, you know, slavery to the present. ![]() Women are paid half to three quarters of what white actresses tend to make. And I think that - my work specifically looks at pornography, for example - you can see that in the production of the types of films that black women appear in: lower production value, less of the kind of market, lower kind of values in how they treat the workers. She talks a lot about in her work, which I've read extensively, about the lower erotic capital of black women in the sex economy as being reflective of our lower value in the entire labor economy. I think that Siobhan is very correct in her research. What do you think that says about the value that's placed on black women's bodies in general? Siobhan found that black women were paid less, treated worse than other strippers. Professor MIREILLE MILLER-YOUNG (Women's Studies, University of California): Thank you.ĬHIDEYA: So Mireille, let's start with you. Professor HERBERT SAMUELS (Natural and Applied Sciences, LaGuardia Community College): Thank you very much. And also Mireille Miller-Young, a women's studies professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. With me is Herbert Samuels, a sex educator and professor of natural and applied sciences at LaGuardia Community College in New York. And now we are going to outsiders who give us a historical look at the black body as a product.
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