Season 2 of Conversations with Ollie Mac is here! Ollie Mac continues his trend of engaging in new and bold conversations! In the first episode of Season 2, Ollie Mac discusses a stereotype that dates back to the Jim Crow Era. It is known as "The Sapphire Caricature" but known to everyone else as "The Angry Black Woman" (ABW).  ABWs has been popularized in the cinema and on television and even former First Lady Michelle Obama has been described as one! Ollie Mac along with special guests Dr. Tonya Phillips and Ms. Cheri White discuss why this stereotype continues to exist and what we can do to steer away from it.

You can find Dr. Tonya Phillips's book, "For Better or Worse: A Practical Guide for Sustaining a Godly Marriage" on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T2VSMJ1 or via Pearly Gates Publishing at https://pearlygatespublishing.com/marriage-and-family.

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Resources used for this episode include the following:

"The Angry Black Woman: The Impact of Pejorative Stereotypes on Psychotherapy with Black Women" by Dr. Wendy Ashley, 2014

"The 'angry Black woman' as intellectual bondage: being strategically emotional on the academic plantation" by Nadena Doharty, 2020

"The Sapphire Caricature" by Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University, August, 2008

"I’ve long feared being labeled an ‘angry black woman.’ Now, I’m learning to be true to my emotions." by Bianca Xunise

Podcast art by RoseCross, Music Written and Produced by YungRave Ent, Song Performed by ChocalateButterfly_Ki

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