Images of black women among anglo college students

Weitz, Rose; Gordon, Lewis R.

doi:10.1007/bf00289745

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“…Beliefs in the latter stereotype were significantly associated with increased beliefs in justifications for violence. European American college students endorsed the belief that African American women were loud, talkative, aggressive, intelligent, argumentative, and straightforward, and that they held more negative traits, than American women in general (Weitz & Gordon, 1993). Niemann, Jennings, Rozelle, Baxter, and Sullivan (1994) found similar results-African American women were considered loud, antagonistic, and unmannerly, but friendly, athletic, and socially active.…”

Section: African American Womensupporting

confidence: 71%

The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes, the Woman's Race, and Level of Provocation and Resistance on Domestic Violence Culpability Attributions

Esqueda

Harrison

2005

Sex Roles

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Section: African American Womensupporting

confidence: 71%

The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes, the Woman's Race, and Level of Provocation and Resistance on Domestic Violence Culpability Attributions

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Harrison

2005

Sex Roles

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“…This builds upon on prior distinctions found between Black and White women’s personality traits attributions. For example, Weitz and Gordon (1993) found the top three traits used to describe white women were intelligent, materialistic, and sensitive. In contrast, Black women were most often characterized as loud, talkative, and aggressive (Weitz & Gordon, 1993).…”

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“…For example, Weitz and Gordon (1993) found the top three traits used to describe white women were intelligent, materialistic, and sensitive. In contrast, Black women were most often characterized as loud, talkative, and aggressive (Weitz & Gordon, 1993). Similarly, West (2004) noted that Black women are often perceived as “hostile tongue-lashing nag who drives men away and bullies everyone” (p. 282).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Numerous narratives have suggested that this is due to historical stereotyping of darker skin Black women as hypersexual, hostile, and emasculating partners (Durik et al, 2006; Niemann, Jennings, Rozelle, Baxter, & Sullivan1994; Sengupta, 2006; Weitz & Gordon, 1993), while kindness, popularity, attractiveness and socially desirability have been associated with lighter-skinned Black women (Baumann, 2008; Maddox & Gray, 2002; Nasser-McMillan et al, 2006; Stephens & Few, 2007). These skin color beliefs influence dating partnership preferences.…”

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The Influence of Skin Color on Heterosexual Black College Women's Dating Beliefs

Stephens

Thomas

2012

Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

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Black women’s skin color perceptions were identified utilized qualitative methods. The primary goal was to identify the relevance of these perceptions on their understandings about dating preferences and related beliefs about appropriate scripts using a Black feminist thought framework. Twenty- eight self- identified Black women attending a large university in the southeastern United States were interviewed for this study. Lighter- skin was perceived as being more attractive, and associated with four themes about dating: (a) positive personality traits, (b) increased value in dating contexts, and (c) sexual appeal to men. Therapeutic considerations for addressing skin color concerns with Black female clients, including addressing within group differences and validation of skin color values, are addressed.

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“…For example, common stereotypes about black women characterize them as loud, stubborn, talkative, aggressive and argumentative (Weitz & Gordon, 1993). Likewise, black males are often stereotyped as aggressive and criminally inclined and their behaviors are more easily categorized as aggressive than similar behaviors displayed by white males (Duncan, 1976;Ryan, Judd & Park, 1996).…”

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Race stereotypes and perceptions about black males involved in interpersonal violence

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2001

Journal of African American Men

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Truck drivers are fat and frustrated, nuns are quiet and holy, and women are gentle and sweet. These are all examples of social stereotypes that typically dominate individual thought, group behavior and cultural practices. Walter Lippman (1922) first introduced the term "stereotype" to the world and argued that stereotypes are highly influential cognitive structures. Since that time an extensive body of research has accumulated that indicates stereotype-based expectations influence the perceptual processing of social information. For example, stereotypical expectancies can influence what social information is actually perceived by the individual (Brewer, 1988), the amount of attention that is allocated to social information, and the interpretation of this information. Subsequently, stereotyping can lead to biased inferential processes and influence behaviors directed toward social targets (Bodenhausen & Lichtenstein, The present research investigates the influence of race stereotypes on perceptions about black males involved in interpersonal violence. Participants read a vignette depicting an interpersonal violence incident and completed a questionnaire concerning their perceptions of incident. Results indicate that black males involved in interpersonal violence are perceived more negatively than their white counterparts. These findings are discussed in relation to how race stereotypes influence attributions about Black males involved in interpersonal violence.

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Images of black women among anglo college students

Cited by 64 publications

References 12 publications

The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes, the Woman's Race, and Level of Provocation and Resistance on Domestic Violence Culpability Attributions

The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes, the Woman's Race, and Level of Provocation and Resistance on Domestic Violence Culpability Attributions

The Influence of Skin Color on Heterosexual Black College Women's Dating Beliefs

Race stereotypes and perceptions about black males involved in interpersonal violence

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