Superwoman Schema: a context for understanding psychological distress among middle-class African American women who perceive racial microaggressions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Joi-Sheree’ Knighton ◽  
Jardin Dogan ◽  
Candice Hargons ◽  
Danelle Stevens-Watkins
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
American Women

scholarly journals Is Physical Activity a Buffer? Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Anxiety Among African American Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 122-143
Author(s):  
LaTrice N. Wright ◽  
Jioni A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stress Appraisal ◽  
Gendered Racism ◽  
Anxious Arousal ◽  
American Women

The purpose of this study was to explore the relations between gendered racism (i.e., the simultaneous experience of racism and sexism) and anxiety among African American women. The study also tested the moderating role of physical activity in the link between gendered racism and anxiety. It was hypothesized that a subtle form of gendered racism (i.e., gendered racial microaggressions) would significantly predict anxious arousal. We also hypothesized that physical activity would buffer the relations between gendered racial microaggressions and anxiety. Participants were 249 African American women residing in the United States, who completed an online survey. Results from hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that a greater frequency and stress appraisal of gendered racial microaggressions significantly predicted greater anxious arousal. Results also suggested that physical activity did not buffer the association between gendered racial microaggressions and anxiety. This study has implications for highlighting the importance of exploring variables that might serve to buffer African American women against the stress of gendered racism experienced in their everyday lives.

Introduction

Brown Beauty ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Laila Haidarali
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Class Membership ◽  
New Negro ◽  
American Women ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Prominent Response

This book interrogates the multiple meanings of brown as reference to physical complexion in the representation of African American womanhood during the interwar years. It questions how and why color in general and brownness in particular came to intimate race, class, gender, and sex identity as one prominent response to modernity and urbanization. This book shows that throughout the interwar years, diverse sets of African American women and men, all of whom can be defined as middle class within this constituency’s widely varying class membership, privileged brown complexions in their reworking of ideas, images, and expressions to identify the representative bodies of women as modern New Negro women.

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