Eight decades later, black women still need protection from sexual violence, despite the Civil Rights Movement. According to the National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community (PDF, 772KB):
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Black women should not be the forgotten survivors of sexual violence. The year is 2020. Maybe this will start another movement that will result in sustainable change for black women experiencing sexual violence.
There are wide, stubborn economic gaps between black and white households in the U.S. Why? Many factors are at work, of course, including lower rates of upward mobility, discrimination in the labor market, big differences in rates of incarceration, disparities in access to quality education, historic exclusion from home ownership, and so on.
There has been a significant increase in rates of four-year college completion among black Americans, especially women. But rates among whites have increased just as rapidly, again especially among women. Almost half (44.7 percent) the white women aged 25 to 35 in 2015 have completed four years of college. For black men the rate is just 17.2 percent:
So black Americans are still much less likely to get an undergraduate degree. But even when they do, they are less able to create greater economic security, at least as measured by household wealth, as new data from the Survey of Consumer Finances shows:
In fact, black households headed by a college graduate are less wealthy than less-educated white ones. Again, there are clearly a myriad of factors at work here. One is that a racial wage gap remains even among college graduates, especially men. In 2015, college-educated white men over age 25 made a median of $32 per hour, compared to $25 for black men.
But there are big differences here by race. White women with an undergraduate degree are almost as likely to be married today as in 1960. But marriage rates are declining for black women across the educational spectrum. A black woman with an undergraduate degree aged between 35 and 45 is 15 percentage points less likely to be married than a white woman without a undergraduate degree:
The race gap in marriage rates for those without a college degree has remained stable over time, with roughly equivalent declines for white and black women. Meanwhile, the marriage gap for women with an undergraduate degree has widened, from 21 percentage points in 1970 to 31 percentage points in 2015.
So: black women with an undergraduate degree are less likely to get married, and if they do, are less likely to marry a man with an undergraduate degree. (Note that our data does not yet capture same-sex marriages.) The result is that improvements in the individual economic position of black Americans does not translate into equivalent gains at the household level.
It hardly needs saying that the connections between race, gender, education and marriage are highly complex, and deeply personal. However, one thing is clear: educational and economic outcomes for black men have profound implications for the prosperity of black families and the prospects of black children, and for racial equity more broadly. Given these trends, it is not surprising that our colleague Camille Busette, director of the new Brookings Race, Prosperity and Inclusion Initiative, has chosen to focus first on young men of color.
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Since 1996, numerous women have accused singer R. Kelly of sexual assault. But many of their claims have fallen on deaf ears because of who the accusers happen to be: black women. Just listen to what people had to say about them in the Lifetime docuseries "Surviving R. Kelly":
That's not just an anecdote. A study by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality found that adults perceived black girls to be less innocent and more familiar with sex than white girls the same age as them.
"I would just really want to underscore empathy towards not only young women, but women in general, and encourage kind of a broader understanding of what that woman is coming into this vulnerable situation with that may make it more likely for her to be harmed in the long run."
PURPOSE: Although previous studies have examined race and sex differences in health care, few studies have investigated the possible role of physician bias. We evaluated the influence of race and sex on medical students' perceptions of patients' symptoms to determine if there are differences in these perceptions early in medical training. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: One-hundred sixty-four medical students were randomly assigned to view a video of a black female or white male actor portraying patients with identical symptoms of angina. We evaluated students' perceptions of the actors' health state (based on their assessment of quality of life) using a visual analog scale and a standard rating technique, as well as the type of chest pain diagnosis. RESULTS: Students assigned a lower value (indicating a less desirable health state) to the black woman than to the white man with identical symptoms [visual scale (mean +/- SD): 72 +/- 13 vs 67 +/- 12, P
At the center of all of these claims and allegiances is the body of a young black woman, who in many ways has been continually assaulted since 13 March. This time the assaults, arising from various narratives surrounding the case, to, the inability of the take serious the realities of racialized sexual violence against women of color.
The message is clear: black women and their bodies have little value, little protection, and are accessible to anyone who feels entitled to them. Thus, it should not be surprising that a generation of young white men, for whom the consumption of hip-hop has been second nature, would find a black exotic dancer desirable or in the worse case scenario, sexually available to them, even if she resists their advances. But the Duke lacrosse rape case is not simply about centuries old dramas across the color line. It also about the tensions within black communities about which black bodies deserve protection and defense.
This experiment is heart breaking. Why is it that society teaches children so young that white is right and black is wrong? White, Asian, and Hispanic children all said the white doll was better. Even black children preferred the white doll and said that black was ugly. Overall the kids believed the black doll to be mean, dumb, bad, and ugly, based solely of of the skin color. While the white doll was pretty, smart, nice, and good, based off of nothing but the skin color.
The most upsetting part of the experiment to me is that the black kids identified to be more similar to the black doll but still held the beliefs that the black doll was mean, dumb, bad, and ugly. These young children learn stereotyping so young which seems to be very dangerous. Black kids can easily learn to hate themselves for the skin color they were born with. The order of the questions were lined up specifically to identify character flaws and then choose which doll was similar. After attributing negative traits to the doll the kids still identified with the black doll. Throughout the years the experiment has been repeated but nothing has changed. As a society, we have to learn to let go of racial prejudices and stereotypes. Its a shame that we live in a world where kids who are only six year old of all races think so negatively about dark skin.
While mass media misrepresent the black population, it tends to both misrepresent and underrepresent the Latino population. When represented in entertainment media, Latinos assume hypersexualized roles and low-occupation jobs. Both news and entertainment media overrepresent Latino criminality. News outlets also overly associate Latino immigration with crime and relate Latino immigration to economic threat. Video games rarely portray Latino characters.
Overall, scholars know very little about how either of these groups are regularly portrayed based on empirical research, although novelists and critical scholars have offered useful critiques (Wilson, Gutiérrez, & Chao, 2003). Hopefully, future quantitative content analyses will further delineate the nature of Native American and Asian American portrayals. Consider the discussion about entertainment, news, and digital imagery of blacks, Latinos, and whites presented in the next section.
Overall, a number of studies have found that blacks receive representation in prime-time television at parity to their actual proportion in the US population with their proportion ranging from 10% to 17% of prime-time characters (Mastro & Greenberg, 2000; Signorielli, 2009; Tukachinsky, Mastro, & Yarchi, 2015). African Americans currently compose approximately 13% of the US population (US Census Bureau, 2018). When considering the type of characters (e.g., major or minor) portrayed by this group, the majority of black (61%) cast members land roles as major characters (Monk-Turner, Heiserman, Johnson, Cotton, & Jackson, 2010). Black women also fare well in these representations, accounting for 73% of black appearances on prime-time television (Monk-Turner et al., 2010).
However, recent content analyses reveal an instability in black prime-time television representation over the last few decades. Tukachinsky et al. (2015) found that the prevalence of black characters dropped in 1993 and remain diminished compared to previous decades. Similarly, Signorielli (2009) found a significant linear decrease in the proportion of black representation from 2001 (17%) to 2008 (12%). Signorielli (2009) attributes this decrease in black representation to the decrease in situation comedy programming. Indeed, African Americans appear most frequently in situation comedies. Sixty percent of black women featured in prime-time television are cast in situation comedies, and 25% of black male prime-time portrayals occur in situation comedies (Signorielli, 2009). However, between 2001 and 2008, situational comedies decreased, while action and crime programs increased. 2ff7e9595c
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