‘No One . . . Saves Black Girls’: Black University Women’s Understanding of Sexual Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 873-908
Author(s):  
Nelson O. O. Zounlome ◽  
Y. Joel Wong ◽  
Elyssa M. Klann ◽  
Jessica L. David ◽  
Nat J. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
American University ◽  
Black African ◽  
Community Protection

Although research has found that sexual violence is a serious issue on college campuses, the lack of diversity in previous samples calls into question the findings’ generalizability to non-White populations. Consequently, little is known about how Students of Color conceptualize sexual violence. Using an intersectional and phenomenological approach, we examined how Black/African American university women understand sexual violence, as well as their perceptions of cultural barriers to help-seeking and reporting this violence. Seven themes emerged: (a) Historical Legacy of Racialized Trauma Against Black Women, (b) Stereotypes of Hypersexualized Black Women, (c) Silence and Community Protection, (d) Duality of Black Spirituality and/or Religiosity, (e) Racial Injustice and Systemic Barriers to Help-Seeking and Reporting, (f) Stereotypes of Strong Black Women, and (g) Grassroots Healing and Empowerment of Black Communities. We provide recommendations for counselors and university staff to develop culturally grounded campus prevention initiatives for Black women.

Centering “Grace”: Challenging Anti-Blackness in Schooling Through Motherwork

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
Terri N. Watson ◽  
Gwendolyn S. Baxley
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Black Children ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Racial Biases ◽  
Black Girlhood ◽  
Patricia Hill Collins ◽  
Educational Advocacy

Anti-Blackness is global and present in every facet of society, including education. In this article, we examine the challenges Black girls encounter in schools throughout the United States. Guided by select research centered on Black women in their roles as mothers, activists and school leaders, we assert that sociologist Patricia Hill Collins’ concept of Motherwork should be an essential component in reframing the praxis of school leadership and in helping school leaders to rethink policies, practices, and ideologies that are anti-Black and antithetical to Blackness and Black girlhood. While most research aimed to improve the schooling experiences of Black children focuses on teacher and school leader (mis)perceptions and systemic racial biases, few studies build on the care and efficacy personified by Black women school leaders. We argue that the educational advocacy of Black women on behalf of Black children is vital to culturally responsive school leadership that combats anti-Blackness and honors Black girlhood. We conclude with implications for school leaders and those concerned with the educational experiences of Black children, namely Black girls.

Untangling discrimination in the private sector workplace in South Africa: Paving the way for Black African women progression to managerial positions

2021 ◽  
pp. 135822912199056
Author(s):  
Motlhatlego Dennis Matotoka ◽  
Kolawole Olusola Odeku
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
South African ◽  
African Women ◽  
The South ◽  
Quota System ◽  
Black African ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Action Measures

Black African women in South Africa are poorly represented at managerial levels in the South African private sector since the advent of democracy. Their exclusion at these occupational levels persists despite the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (EEA) requiring that the private sector must ensure that all occupational levels are equitably represented and reflects the demographics of South Africa. The South African private sector demonstrates its lack of commitment to proliferating black African women into managerial positions by deliberately engaging in race-based recruitment and failing to develop and promote suitably qualified women into managerial positions. As such, the private sector is failing to create upward mobility for black African women to break the glass ceiling. The EEA requires the private sector to apply affirmative action measures in order to achieve equity in the workplace. It is submitted that since 1998, the private sector has been provided with an opportunity to set it own targets in order to achieve equity. However, 22 years later, black African women are still excluded in key managerial positions. However, the EEA does not specifically impose penalties if the private sector fails to achieve the set targets.This approach has failed to increase the representation of black women in managerial positions. However, the EEA does not specifically impose penalties if the private sector fails to achieve the set targets. Whilst this approach seeks to afford the private sector importunity to set its own target, this approach has failed to increase the representation of black women in managerial positions. Employing black African women in managerial levels enhances their skills and increases their prospects to promotions and assuming further leadership roles in the private sector. This paper seeks to show that the progression of black African women requires South Africa to adopt a quota system without flexibility that will result in the private sector being compelled to appoint suitably qualified black African women in managerial levels.

scholarly journals Pathways to care and ethnicity. 2: Source of referral and help-seeking

2005 ◽  
Vol 186 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Morgan ◽  
Rosemarie Mallett ◽  
Gerard Hutchinson ◽  
Hemant Bagalkote ◽  
Kevin Morgan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Pathways To Care ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Criminal Justice Agency ◽  
Black African ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
African Patients ◽  
Pathway To Care

BackgroundPrevious research has found that African–Caribbean and Black African patients are likely to come into contact with mental health services via more negative routes, when compared with White patients. We sought to investigate pathways to mental health care and ethnicity in a sample of patients with a first episode of psychosis drawn from two UK centres.MethodWe included all White British, other White, African–Caribbean and Black African patients with a first episode of psychosis who made contact with psychiatric services over a 2-year period and were living in defined areas. Clinical, socio-demographic and pathways to care data were collected from patients, relatives and case notes.ResultsCompared with White British patients, general practitioner referral was less frequent for both African–Caribbean and Black African patients and referral by a criminal justice agency was more common. With the exception of criminal justice referrals for Black African patients, these findings remained significant after adjusting for potential confounders.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that factors are operating during a first episode of psychosis to increase the risk that the pathway to care for Black patients will involve non-health professionals.

scholarly journals Understanding barriers to accessing mental health services for newcomers to Canada using Peterborough, Ontario, as an illustrative example

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurun Layla Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Accurate Information

The quality of an individual’s mental health has a significant impact on their quality of life, as well as on the cost to society. Regular access to mental health services can help mitigate the risk factors of developing mental illnesses. This paper examines barriers to accessing mental health services, using the community of Peterborough, Ontario, as an example. Social, economic, and cultural barriers impact help-seeking amongst immigrants, putting them at a higher risk of developing mental disorders. The social determinants of mental health can be useful when developing policies aimed at improving utilization of mental healthcare services. Policy makers need to first focus on collecting accurate information on the population, and then developing targeted solutions to eliminate barriers such as language and employment that prevent help-seeking in immigrants.

(Other)sistering: Black Women Education Leadership Faculty Aligning Identity, Scholarship, and Practice Through Peer Support and Accountability

2022 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-113
Author(s):  
Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas ◽  
Marsha E. Modeste ◽  
Angel Miles Nash ◽  
Lolita A. Tabron
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Black Feminist Thought ◽  
Community Cultural Wealth ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Dynamic Support ◽  
Assistant Professors ◽  
Insight Into

This inquiry offers insight into how Black women assistant professors traverse the challenging journey toward tenure while acknowledging their connection to their students and communities, research, teaching, and service. By employing a phenomenological approach and utilizing Black feminist thought and community cultural wealth as conceptual and theoretical frameworks, this research advances scholarship identifying commonalities across Black women’s experiences. Further, we offer implications for how the academy can support Black women and other professionals from marginalized populations. Findings include how Black women assistant professors develop and create dynamic support systems amongst themselves to combat the multiple marginalizations of their positionality in the academy––a place where they are historically “outsiders.”

Black Parents as Achievement Socialization Agents for Black Girls

2018 ◽  
pp. 762-773
Author(s):  
Jemimah L. Young ◽  
Jamaal R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Academic Resilience ◽  
Black Parents ◽  
Academic Identities ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Socialization Agents ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Better Than

The achievement socialization of Black girls is highly dependent upon the interactions within their sphere of socialization. Black gender socialization patterns may build an academic resilience in Black women that gives them the capacity to navigate the U.S. educational system substantially better than their male counterparts. In this chapter, the authors describe how parents and teachers can leverage the racial, disciplinary, and academic identities of Black girls to increase their performance in mathematics. This chapter equips teachers and parents with explicit tools to build on the trends observed in prior research. These tools can help parents and teachers build bridges to mathematics success for Black girls.

“Their Side of the Case”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keona K. Ervin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Labor Activism ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
The World ◽  
Contractual Agreements ◽  
Working Class Women

Chapter 2 maps the labor activism of St. Louis’s largest segment of black working-class women as they mounted a labor reform program that anticipated and challenged New Deal labor legislation. With progressive black women staffers who led the St. Louis Urban League’s Women’s Division and progressive Jewish clubwomen who developed important ties to black communities, domestic workers designed and enforced standardization and rationalization policies to make dignity tangible in their contractual agreements. A predominant female constituency marked the Urban League as a women’s organization during a “radical” phase that extended into the late 1940s. As domestic workers made moves to “industrialize” household labor, they laid the groundwork for black women’s economic battles during the World War II period.

scholarly journals Racism in health services: a lack of care of violence against black women victims of sexual violence Racismo nos serviços de saúde: a ausência do cuidado com as mulheres negras vítimas de violência sexual

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Alba Jean Batista Viana ◽  
Eduardo Sérgio Soares Sousa ◽  
Ednalva Maciel Neves
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Women Victims

Objetivo: analisar o acesso e a utilização das práticas de saúde prestada a 40 mulheres em situação de violência sexual em um serviço público de saúde de referência na Paraíba. Método: estudo documental descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa, realizado em um serviço público do Estado da Paraíba de referência para assistência às mulheres em situação de violência sexual. Resultados: em 39% dos casos a frequência maior das agressões predominou nas mulheres de classe social de baixa renda, entre 10 - 20 anos e 20% se encontravam grávidas no momento da agressão. As maiores vítimas foram mulheres negras (72%). O tipo de violência sexual mais empregado foi o estupro (59%). Além da demora em iniciar o atendimento e realizar exames, a profilaxia AIDS e anticoncepção de emergência, em 69% das notificações não foram registradas. Conclusão: Estes aspectos revelam o racismo e as precárias condições de saúde das mulheres negras, sugerindo uma possível não valorização por parte dos profissionais, semelhante ao que ocorre em outros espaços sociais na nossa sociedade. Descritores: violência sexual; desigualdades étnico-raciais; atenção à saúde; direitos humanos e sociais.

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