Despite advances in technology that have eliminated or drastically reduced the impact of some traditional media in the US society, television has largely adapted from a small selection of traditional networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC to hundreds of cable networks and online streaming platforms, including Netflix and Hulu. The objective of this study was to explore the prevailing stereotypes within African American women portrayals. The media landscape has drastically changed over the last 50 years, and thus, a need to understand how this impacted representations of African American women was critical to understand. Findings showed that while representations became more complex, layered, and “cool,” the performances were largely static. Furthermore, despite studies noting the issue of underrepresentation largely disappeared and African American women moved to levels more in line with their US population, this gain did not erase what those images do and have done to viewers–who are African American women and not–over decades.

尽管技术进步已经消除或大大减少了一些传统媒体对美国社会的影响，但电视已在很大程度上适应了从 ABC、CBS 和 NBC 等少数传统网络到数百个有线电视网络和在线流媒体平台，包括Netflix 和 Hulu。本研究的目的是探索非洲裔美国女性形象中普遍存在的刻板印象。在过去的 50 年中，媒体格局发生了巨大变化，因此，了解这如何影响非裔美国女性的表现至关重要。调查结果表明，虽然表现变得更加复杂、分层和“酷”，但表演在很大程度上是静态的。此外，