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The finding that stereotypes of Black women affected participants’ perceptions of Black women illustrates that it is important to explore the role of these stereotypes in relation to existing disparities that Black women experience in sexual and reproductive (as well as other) health outcomes.
- Lisa Rosenthal, Marci Lobel
- 2016
Mar 9, 2021 · There has been a thought or belief for decades that Black women are promiscuous and that young people, especially, are engaged in hooking up or sexual exploration with many sexual partners....
Jan 8, 2019 · That black women are ‘wild’ in bed, aggressively dominant sexually, promiscuous, always up for it. They are beliefs that derive from long-standing stereotypes about black women – namely...
- Natalie Morris
Due to their intersecting racial identity and gender identity, Black women are characterized by stigmatizing race-based sexual stereotypes (RBSS) that may contribute to persistent, disproportionately high rates of adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
- Keosha T. Bond, Natalie M. Leblanc, Porche Williams, Cora-Ann Gabriel, Ndidiamaka N. Amutah-Onukagha...
- 10.1177/10901981211010086
- 2021
- 2021/06
Sep 24, 2018 · The CDC reports that African American women experience a high burden of STIs, including HIV. 62 In 2012, compared with white women, African American women were more likely to be diagnosed with primary or secondary syphilis, gonorrhea, or chlamydia (16.3, 13.8, and 6.2 times, respectively). 62 African American women were also two to three times ...
- Cynthia Prather, Taleria R. Fuller, William L. Jeffries, Khiya J. Marshall, A. Vyann Howell, Angela ...
- 10.1089/heq.2017.0045
- 2018
- Health Equity. 2018; 2(1): 249-259.
A Black female target (pregnant or not) was perceived more negatively on items related to historically rooted societal stereotypes about sexual activity, sexual risk, motherhood status, and socioeconomic status than was a White female target, but there were no differences on items unrelated to societal stereotypes.
Feb 3, 2022 · In a sample of 597 Black undergraduate and graduate college women, we tested whether: (1) self-silencing and SBW ideal endorsement would be independently, inversely associated with three dimensions of sexual assertiveness–communication assertiveness, refusal assertiveness, and pleasure-focused assertiveness; and (2) the association between self-...