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"It's All in Your Mind": Candyman and the Myth of the Black Male Rapist
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David S. Neale Lewis Gordon AA 10 August 2, 1999 "It's All in Your Mind": Candyman and the Myth of the Black Male Rapist The movie Candyman1 resuscitates the age-old myth of the black male rapist. According to Angela Davis2, the historical pretext of the black male rapist was created in order to justify the gruesome practice of lynching blacks3. As Davis explains, it became "necessary" to avenge black men's assaults on white womanhood4. In Candyman, the title character is the black rapist; he uses a hook for a hand-turned-phallus to rip white women5 apart "from their groin to their gullet"-nothing other than a rape-murder. However, given the fictitious nature of the myth, its presence in the film immediately raises questions about the validity of Helen's experiences with the legendary hook-wielding black man. As I will show, Helen may have participated in what Don Belton calls the "scapegoating of the black male body"6 in...
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