“We've Got a Right to Fight; We're Married”: Domestic Homicide in Chicago, 1875–1920

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Adler
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
African American ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Domestic Homicide ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
German Immigrants ◽  
Single Category

Scholars often treat family violence as a single category and argue that domestic violence typically reflects conflict over gender roles. Such a focus has been well placed. But if data on domestic homicide in Chicago from 1875 to 1920 are disaggregated by ethnicity and race, important patterns emerge. Domestic homicide, for example, assumed culturally specific forms. German immigrants, Italian immigrants, and African-American Chicagoans killed loved ones for different reasons, at different rates, and with different family members involved. Although the violence revolved around challenges to gender identity and expectations, each group defined such challenges in distinct ways, reflecting a complex blend of cultural assumptions and material circumstances.

Intention to Formally Report Family Violence in South Korea: Based on Black’s Theory of Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Sihyun Park ◽  
Sin-Hyang Kim
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Theory Of Law

Generally, filing a formal report of family violence is considered a difficult task, although it is the main source from which police can take action. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors predicting the intention to formally report family violence in South Korea, based on Black’s theory of law. The data were drawn from the National Survey of Domestic Violence, collected from a representative sample of 5777 members of the South Korean population. The results indicated that people generally showed a greater intention to report violence that they witnessed in other families as opposed to their own family. Perceived gender roles and information about institutions where individuals might seek help for family violence were the strongest negative and positive predictors of the intention to report, respectively. The findings can be used as evidence when developing public education and practical guidelines to promote official reporting of family violence.

Domestic Violence in the African American Community

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hampton ◽  
William Oliver ◽  
Lucia Magarian
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Community

Sexual Victimization and Family Violence Among Urban African American Adolescent Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1319-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angie C. Kennedy ◽  
Deborah Bybee ◽  
Shanti J. Kulkarni ◽  
Gretchen Archer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
African American Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Women ◽  
Urban African American Adolescent

Blackface Minstrelsy and the Reception of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-320
Author(s):  
Julia J. Chybowski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Black Swan ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Blackface Minstrelsy ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis article explores blackface minstrelsy in the context of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's singing career of the 1850s–1870s. Although Greenfield performed a version of African American musicality that was distinct from minstrel caricatures, minstrelsy nonetheless impacted her reception. The ubiquity of minstrel tropes greatly influenced audience perceptions of Greenfield's creative and powerful transgressions of expected race and gender roles, as well as the alignment of race with mid-nineteenth-century notions of social class. Minstrel caricatures and stereotypes appeared in both praise and ridicule of Greenfield's performances from her debut onward, and after successful US and transatlantic tours established her notoriety, minstrel companies actually began staging parody versions of Greenfield, using her sobriquet, “Black Swan.” These “Black Swan” acts are evidence that Greenfield's achievements were perceived as threats to established social hierarchies.

scholarly journals African American Women and Domestic Violence: Addressing their Voice of Silence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Kennedy ◽  
Chalice Rhodes (Former Jenkins)
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Slave Owner ◽  
American Women ◽  
Strong Black Women

Abstract Historically, during slavery, the international slave trade promoted normalization of violence against African American women. During slavery, African American women endured inhuman conditions because of the majority race views of them as being over-sexualized, physically strong, and immoral. This perception of the African American women as being highly sexual and more sexual than white women results in slave owner justifying their sexual violation and degrading of the African American women. The stereotypical representations of African American women as strong, controlling, dangerous, fearless, and invulnerable may interfere with the African American women receiving the needed services for domestic violence in the community. The Strong Black Women Archetype has been dated back to slavery describing their coping mechanism in dealing with oppression by developing a strong, less traditionally female role. The authors developed a model: The Multidimensional Perspectives of Factors Contributing to Domestic Violence of African American Women in the United States. This model depicts historically, the factors contributing to domestic violence of African American women in the United States. Also, this model addressed the African American women subscribing to the Strong Black Women Archetype to cope with domestic violence. Despite the increase in domestic violence in African American women, they focused more on the issue of racism instead of sexism in America. African American women have experienced the two obstacles of racism and sexism in America. However, African American women and men believe racism is more critical than sexism. Therefore, domestic violence in the African American population may remain silent because of cultural loyalty. However, the voice of silence of African American females is gradually changing with the upcoming generations.

scholarly journals The Effect of Sex and Perpetrator-Victim Relationship on Perceptions of Domestic Homicide

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda C. Karlsson ◽  
Tuulia Malén ◽  
Johanna K. Kaakinen ◽  
Jan Antfolk
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
Domestic Homicide ◽  
Male Offenders ◽  
Crime Type ◽  
Biological Children ◽  
Mock Jury

Previous research on how stereotypes affect perceptions of intimate partner violence and domestic homicide has found that violence committed by men is perceived as more severe and judged more harshly than violence committed by women. The present mock jury study investigated how perpetrator sex (male or female), crime type (familicide or filicide), and relatedness between perpetrator and child victims (biological or step) affect laypeople’s perceptions of the appropriate consequence of the crime, the reason for the offence, responsibility of the perpetrator, the likelihood of certain background factors being present, and the risk of future violence. One hundred sixty-seven university students read eight fictive descriptions of cases of multiple-victim domestic homicides, in which the sex of the perpetrator, the crime type, and the relatedness between the perpetrator and the child victims were manipulated. We found that participants recommended equally severe punishments to and placed the same amount of responsibility on male and female offenders. Female offenders were, however, regarded as mentally ill to a larger extent and perceived more likely to have been victims of domestic violence compared to male offenders. Male offenders, on the other hand, were seen as more likely to have committed domestic violence in the past, having been unemployed, have substance abuse, hold aggressive attitudes, and commit violent acts in the future. Participants also perceived offenders killing biological children as more mentally ill than offenders killing stepchildren. The present study extends the literature on the possible effect of stereotypes on decision making in psychiatric and judicial contexts.

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