1. Melissa V. Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 259.
2. See Wahneema Lubiano, “But Compared to What? Reading Realism, Representation and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse,” in Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, ed. Valerie Smith (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997), 97–122, 107.
3. See M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2010).
4. Stuart Hall, “What Is This ‘Black’ in Black Popular Culture?” in Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, ed. Valerie Smith (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997), 123–133, 128.
5. Timothy Lyle, “‘Check With Yo’ Man First; Check with Yo’ Man’: Tyler Perry Appropriates Drag as a Tool to Re-Circulate Patriarchal Ideology,” Callaloo, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2011): 943–958, 951.