of Players and the direction focused on content relevant to the everyday life of black Americans, and away from the fantasy "pimp" model pushed by Weinstock and Morriss. Media Representation Writers for Players magazine inspired hip-hop innovators like Nas, Tupac Shakur, and The Notorious B.I.G. In American culture, porn is a stimulus of a popular imagination stratified and, indeed, haunted, by race. These portrayals, reinforce negative stereotypes about black people. When the only representations audiences see of minority characters are negative, these portrayals manifest to society. These images influence how audiences view minorities. Minorities also face implications from this by internalizing these representations. Negative representations that are internalized are demoralizing and reduce self-esteem. These representations impact our expectations for characters in thinking about stereotypes, and the kinds of characters that we expect certain bodies to portray. According to Miller-Young, black women are undervalued in the porn industry. Some examples that manifest themselves in the porn industry, is the binary that exists for black women; you are either a Mammy non sexual, or the Jezebel, inherently available and hyper sexual. Black women are also disproportionately viewed as aggressive, domineering, and unfeminine. Whereas black men are depicted as animalistic and hyper masculine. Hyper-sexuality of Black Women When a simple Google search is done about the players magazine one can tell that most of the women on the cover's are Black women. Players magazine provides many cultural ideas for the Black community but at what cost to black women? The hyper-sexualization of Black women is not only prevalent in the Players magazine but has always been prevalent in media. The negative representation of Black Women have been shown through hip hop. Depictions like the "baby mama" or the "sex-crazed gold-digger" paints this picture of how Black Women are seen as easily accessible at a cost. Because these views of Black Women are so easily influenced by media it is easy to take advantage of a Black Woman's image. Leading people to believe that they too can profit off of the Black Woman's image. Featured Models Players' Definition of a Woman Players''' definition of a woman suitable to be featured often fluctuated. Where initially "Morriss and Weinstock had only three requirements for women to be featured in the magazine: the models had to look like they were eighteen years old, they had to have European features, and they had to have large breasts." Having