While Hell’s Kitchen’s premise is promising, the perspective of Black women slowly withers away as other characters’ development and traumas are prioritized. However, juxtaposing Jane’s son’s murder with Knuck’s arrest feels manipulative, especially considering that Black women are also overpoliced. Why was she portrayed that way?”Theater’s Minstrel Show RootsTheater’s depiction of Black women has deep roots in blackface minstrel shows that reinforced Jim Crow segregation and reduced Black people to stereotypes. “Women playwrights of the Black Arts Movement followed a tradition of Black women intellectuals who actively resisted controlling images of Black womanhood,” writes La Donna L. Forsgren, Ph.D., in her 2018 book, In Search of Our Warrior Mothers: Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement. “For the first time, many Black women saw a movie that reflected their own experiences at home.