scholarly journals Racial Identity Clusters and Their Relation to Postpartum Maternal Functioning in Black Women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kortney Floyd James ◽  
Dawn M. Aycock ◽  
Kate Fouquier ◽  
Kimberly A. Hires ◽  
Jennifer L. Barkin
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Maternal Functioning

scholarly journals Inequalities in Hypertension and Diabetes in Canada: Intersections between Racial Identity, Gender, and Income

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Gagné ◽  
Gerry Veenstra
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
White Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
Canadian Community Health Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Community Health Survey ◽  
Using Data

<p>A growing body of research from the United States informed by intersectionality theory indicates that racial identity, gender, and income are often entwined with one another as determinants of health in unexpectedly complex ways. Research of this kind from Canada is scarce, however. Using data pooled from ten cycles (2001- 2013) of the Canadian Community Health Survey, we regressed hypertension (HT) and diabetes (DM) on income in subsamples of Black women (n = 3,506), White women (n = 336,341), Black men (n = 2,806) and White men (n = 271,260). An increase of one decile in income was associated with lower odds of hypertension and diabetes among White men (ORHT = .98, 95% CI (.97, .99); ORDM = .93, 95% CI (.92, .94)) and White women (ORHT = .95, 95% CI (.95, .96); ORDM = .90, 95% CI (.89, .91)). In contrast, an increase of one decile in income was not associated with either health outcome among Black men (ORHT = .99, 95% CI (.92, 1.06); ORDM = .99, 95% CI (.91, 1.08)) and strongly associated with both outcomes among Black women (ORHT = .86, 95% CI (.80, .92); ORDM = .83, 95% CI (.75, .92)). Our findings highlight the complexity of the unequal distribution of hypertension and diabetes, which includes inordinately high risks of both outcomes for poor Black women and an absence of associations between income and both outcomes for Black men in Canada. These results suggest that an intersectionality framework can contribute to uncovering health inequalities in Canada.</p><p><em>Ethn Dis.</em>2017;27(4):371-378; doi:10.18865/ ed.27.4.371. </p>

scholarly journals Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Depressive Symptoms Among Black Women: A Moderated Mediation Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene G. Williams ◽  
Jioni A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Indirect Association

In the current study, we explored the relations between gendered racial microaggressions, gendered racial identity (intersection of one’s racial and gender identities), coping, and depressive symptoms among Black women. We tested coping strategies as mediators of the relations between gendered racial microaggressions and depressive symptoms. We also tested a moderated mediation model with gendered racial identity public and private regard as moderators of the indirect association of gendered racial microaggressions and depressive symptoms through disengagement coping. Participants were 231 Black women in the United States who completed an online survey. Disengagement coping was a significant mediator; increases in gendered racial microaggressions were associated with greater use of disengagement coping which, in turn, was associated with greater depressive symptoms. Gendered racial identity private regard was a significant moderator of the indirect association of gendered racial microaggressions and depressive symptoms through disengagement coping. These findings highlight the role of gendered racial identity private regard in buffering the negative effects of gendered racial microaggressions on depressive symptoms. Practitioners can use this information to apply an intersectional approach to therapeutic interventions that consider Black women’s intersecting identities and experiences of gendered racism.

“Until This Curse of Polygamy Is Wiped Out”: Black Methodists, White Mormons, and Constructions of Racial Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Racial Ideology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Methodist Episcopal ◽  
Racially Mixed ◽  
American Nation

AbstractDuring the final quarter of the nineteenth century, black members of the Methodist Episcopal (ME) Church published a steady stream of anti-Mormonism in their weekly newspaper, the widely read and distributedSouthwestern Christian Advocate. This anti-Mormonism functioned as way for black ME Church members to articulate their denomination's distinctive racial ideology. Black ME Church members believed that their racially mixed denomination, imperfect though it was, offered the best model for advancing black citizens toward equality in both the Christian church and the American nation. Mormons, as a religious group who separated themselves in both identity and practice and as a community experiencing persecution, were a useful negative example of the dangers of abandoning the ME quest for inclusion. Black ME Church members emphasized their Christian faithfulness and American patriotism, in contrast to Mormon religious heterodoxy and political insubordination, as arguments for acceptance as equals in both religious and political institutions. At the same time, anti-Mormon rhetoric also proved a useful tool for reflecting on the challenges of African American life, regardless of denominational affiliation. For example, anti-polygamy opened space to comment on the precarious position of black women and families in the post-bellum South. In addition, cataloguing Mormon intellectual, moral, and social deficiencies became a form of instruction in the larger project of black uplift, by which African Americans sought to enter the ranks and privileges of the American middle class. In the end, however, black ME Church members found themselves increasingly segregated within their denomination and in society at large, even as Mormons, once considered both racially and religiously inferior, were welcomed into the nation as citizens and equals.

scholarly journals Controlling Images: How Awareness of Group Stereotypes Affects Black Women’s Well-Being

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Jerald
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Young Black Women ◽  
Drug And Alcohol ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

This paper presents research exploring how stereotypes that are simultaneously racialized and gendered affect Black women. We investigated the mental and physical health consequences of Black women’s awareness that others hold these stereotypes and tested whether this association is moderated by the centrality of racial identity. A structural equation model tested among 609 young Black women revealed that metastereotype awareness (being aware that others hold negative stereotypes of one’s group) predicted negative mental health outcomes (depression, anxiety, hostility), which in turn predicted diminished self-care behaviors and greater drug and alcohol use for coping. High racial centrality exacerbated the negative association between metastereotype awareness and self-care. We discuss implications of the findings for clinical practice and for approaches to research using intersectionality frameworks.

Superwoman, Racial Identity, and Teen Dating Violence Victimization among Young Black Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110219
Author(s):  
Katrina J. Debnam ◽  
Adam J. Milam ◽  
Nadine Finigan-Carr
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Teen Dating Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Path Models ◽  
Teen Dating ◽  
Young Black Women ◽  
The Relationship

Young Black women consistently report the highest rates of teen dating violence (TDV) in the United States. They are also navigating a world in which they are facing historical marginalization and intersectional oppression. The Superwoman stereotypic role, in which Black women showcase strength and resist vulnerability, is often adapted in reaction to this normalized existence. Yet little research has examined how these constructs are related. In addition, research suggests that a positive racial identity may function as a psychological buffer against society’s negative view of Black Americans and reduce involvement in violence. The current study examined the relationship between endorsement of a Superwoman role and TDV victimization among young Black women. A total of 481 Black women, aged 18–19, completed online survey measures assessing their racial identity beliefs, endorsement of racial stereotypes, and TDV experiences. The results of the path models showed that endorsement of a Superwoman role was associated with increased TDV victimization. Results also showed that racial centrality was inversely associated with TDV; the more the young women felt that being Black was a central part of their identity, the less they reported victimization. Findings suggest a need for attention to stereotype development and racial identity in the development of healthy romantic relationships for Black youth.

Practicing Ambivalence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela K. Ahlgren
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Art Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rare Site ◽  
The Impact

The chapter uses autoethnography and personal interviews to illustrate the experiences of white and black women in taiko. Given that a majority of taiko players in the United States are Asian American, taiko is a rare site in which white bodies are seen not as normal but rather as remarkable. Some black women, however, are seen as more American than their Asian and Asian American groupmates. In addition to the impact of racial identity, white and black women also experience taiko as open to a range of gender expressions and as an empowering art form. The chapter examines the ways white, black, and Asian American performers are triangulated and how taiko players experience whiteness and blackness as embodied, lived experience. The chapter traces the history of Iris Shiraishi’s song “Torii” to suggest that taiko has potential to forge productive cross-racial intimacies.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document