ABSTRACT
American mass media rolled the camera away from Black life and the quantity of print on the subject became too small to read. As a result, the number of books published by and about Black people has been negligible since the beginning of the decade. For this reason alone, Michele Wallace’s Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman is ready-made for commercial exploitation. Its destiny, so far, has been further assured by nearly unprecedented promotion and publicity. June Jordan, “Black History as Myth,”
