"'You're incapable of exciting me, Steel, except as an anthropologic curiosity.'- Sarah, Day of the Dead"
Mark Harris
Scary Sistas: A Brief History of Black Women in Horror Films
By Blacula on July 4th, 2006By Mark H. Harris, Creator, Webmaster, Resident Ass of BlackHorrorMovies.com
Black women in cinematic history have long faced the double-barreled Hollywood stigma of race and gender "otherness", their fleeting moment of glory coming in the '90s when "You go, girl!" was introduced into the popular lexicon. On the more formal level of Oscar recognition, meanwhile, the black female images thus far celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been limited to "the three 'M's": mammies (Hattie McDaniel), mystics (Whoopi Goldberg), and mammaries (Halle Berry)...
