In 2017, Migos gave us ‘Bad and Boujee’, an ode to women with expensive taste. A deliberate misspelling of bougie (short for the bourgeoisie), the club banger is just one of many examples of pop culture’s fondness of materialistic black women with a proximity to the middle classes. TV and film tropes, which have not always been kind to black people, have long embraced this archetype – especially in the 1990s and early 2000s.
At last, an analysis of the black and bougie screen queen
