Assertion: debutante's ball | /r/UsedFor | example
Facets:
value: among the african american elite
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Among the African American elite, for example, debutante balls have allowed black women to assert themselves as “respectable, well-mannered, and worthy of respect” in contrast to the racist stereotypes that cast them either as desexualized “Mammy” figures or as promiscuous “jezebels.