Raised in blue-collar Brooklyn, Lauper sings: “Oh mother dear, we’re not the fortunate ones, and girls, they wanna have fun.” Lauper was not the only woman providing an antidote to the submissiveness ...
“Laziness, as well as characteristics of submissiveness, backwardness, lewdness, treachery, and dishonesty, historically became stereotypes assigned to African Americans,” the National Museum ...