CULTURETECHLENShoochie mama
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Combined Graph record U-00721 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0320. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics, chapter 'Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images' (p. 83 of the excerpt, fetched in full): '"hoochie-mama" popularized by 2 Live Crew, an image that links the hoochie image to poverty. As 2 Live Crew points out, the "hoochie mama" is a "hoodrat," a "ghetto hoochie" whose main purpose is to provide them sexual favors.' Supports stored gloss 'sexually provocative woman (derogatory)' and era '1990s'.
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Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics, chapter 'Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images' (p. 83 of the excerpt, fetched in full): '"hoochie-mama" popularized by 2 Live Crew, an image that links the hoochie image to poverty. As 2 Live Crew points out, the "hoochie mama" is a "hoodrat," a "ghetto hoochie" whose main purpose is to provide them sexual favors.' Supports stored gloss 'sexually provocative woman (derogatory)' and era '1990s'.
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Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics, chapter 'Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images' (p. 83 of the excerpt, fetched in full): '"hoochie-mama" popularized by 2 Live Crew, an image that links the hoochie image to poverty. As 2 Live Crew points out, the "hoochie mama" is a "hoodrat," a "ghetto hoochie" whose main purpose is to provide them sexual favors.' Supports stored gloss 'sexually provocative woman (derogatory)' and era '1990s'.
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