Anita Hill Meets Godzilla: Confessions of a Horror Movie Fan

The cases and events discussed in this Essay involve African-American women who have confronted oppression in the civil and criminal courts, and other arenas, in both celebrated and unsung victories: victories not only for Black women, but for women and men of all hues who seek social justice. I will use these cases and events to illustrate the relationship between stereotypes and myths, born during the antebellum and Jim Crow era, and contemporary manifestations of sexual harassment and other forms of sex-based *1922 exploitation. I will go on to discuss the means used by women, in the workplace of chattel slavery, to resist racial oppression and sexual exploitation based on myths and stereotypes.