Case Study: Sexual Experiences Of Black Women

Black Woman Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study, that examines gender as a social and cultural construct, the social status and contributions of women, and the relationships between power and gender. Women are held to this standard of being the one to cook, clean, cater to her spouse and care for the children but it should be more than that. When women go above their expectations, they are accused as being wrong and are sometimes told to not pursue their dreams. Women should be held on the same scale as men in society, this method could prevent gender issues.

African-American women have often been an overlooked group with the larger context of American Society. Historically, oppression has been meted out to the African-American woman in two ways. Historically, everything afforded to African-American, from educational and employment opportunities to health care have been sub-par. As women they have been relegated even further in a patriarchal society that has always, invariably, held men in higher regard.

Many African American women have finally embraced their natural hair and are no longer perming, straightening or altering their hair. However, it has become difficult to obtain the necessary hair care products and learn the ins and outs about caring for their hair, but with the help of social media, they are obtainable. Ever since African American woman decided that they are going to embrace their natural hair, perm sales have decreased. More than 26% of perm sales have decreased since 2008 (Opie & Phillis, 2015), while perms are declining, natural hair care products are increasing. While natural hair care products are increasing, it is no thinks to big brand stores or beauty salons in near hometown. It has to do with buying

Kimberly Bryant is very inspirational to every black girl in America. When she was younger, she wasn’t interested in coding before she made it into a career. She was in the department of biotechnology, which is studying mutations and finding antibiotics. It all started when her daughter Kai was disappointed in her experience at a computing summer camp over the summer. She was disappointed in how there were only a handful of African American girls there, and that the boys got a lot more opportunity than the girls. Bryant started the Black Girls Code in April of 2011.

The author, claims and argues that Black American females are geniuses by presenting quantitative education and income data to substantiate this claim. 2 Kaba provides historical data that demonstrates that Black women have made many notable achievements in history, despite the difficulties that have been faced by the black population for almost 400 years. This author described “genius” as a person of extraordinary intellect and talent and extraordinary intellectual and creative power. Utilizing United States census data, the author points out that of the 14,000 Doctorate degree recipients in the USA aged 18-24, 11,000 were females and Black females accounted for 4,000 (28.6%) and 36.4% of the 11,000 females (Kaba, 2009). The author surmises that with all the statistical census data, educational records and achievements they

The program will have a pre-test and post-test with a three-month follow-up. The pre- and post-test will consist questions of knowledge, attitude and one behavioral question. Some questions on these tests would be about knowledge would if the participants know the definition of HIV and one following information about it of what they have read, been told, or their personal comments, providing questions such as if they know about the use of a condom providing protection against HIV, knowing if there are any treatment, and to question if they know anything about confidential HIV testing. For the behavioral question an example would be, in the last three times you had sex how many times was a condom in use. The data collect of this method will be surveys, measurements, and observations. The ones providing the data will be young adult African American woman, the participants. Since this program will be for six months every other Wednesday for one hour long, it will be a total of 14 sessions. The first four session in this program will assess their knowledge in providing the participants clear information about what HIV is, how it can be transmitted, signs/symptoms related to HIV with the short-term effects as well as the long-term effect, the risk and consequences, and prevention such as medication, treatment, contraceptive use with helpful tips how to delay sexual

The Civil War overall affected African American women in many ways. While they were forced some wanted to take advance of the opportunity to do something to gain their freedom decided to join the war. However they would serve as spies and nurses and some other tasks. Many women’s took the new role at home after their husbands, brothers, and fathers responded to the call of the military of the United States. A lot of enslaved women began the transition to freedom, beginning new lives during the terrors caused by the war. When the war’s end, the overwhelming death of approximately 620,000 soldiers had left numerous women in devastated, ,heath broken ,and compared to previous age of time where it was dominated once again one of the most bloody

Over the course of the years, society has taught black girls that the darker their skin tone is, the uglier they are which triggered them to do their best to meet Eurocentric beauty standards such as having light skin, slim nose and straight hair.

Many Americans point to the suffering of the African American experience from the internal problems in African Americans communities; however, they neglect the external social constraints that African Americans have faces in America. African Americans have suffered oppression through social institution through factors such as Segregation, Racial Crimination, and Mass incarnation. The constraint of segregation was a way of social, political, and economical control over African Americans. African Americans are usually a racial group that is associate with crime. Research and statistics has shown that African Americans are those that are majority incarnated in the United states. Many white Americans kept

Picture this: it's 2017. Your mother is a teacher and your father works for the school district in your state. You aren’t sure what his actual job title is, but no one really harpers on it. It’s 6am and you rush off your bed, stumbling along all the books, clothes and miscellaneous objects on your floor. CNN is buzzing off the television while eggs sizzle on the stove. You ignore your big-headed little brother and head straight to the door, forgetting your backpack. In the midst of the moment, your eyes gaze over the television.

Already knowing much about this topic from previous experience and from others. It doesn't take much to know about the black experience. The topic can either be self taught or learning from the people who we grew up with. I know many things dealing with the black experience; hate, segregation, religion, discrimination, and white privilege. It’s exceedingly important to me since it’s good to take on knowledge about the past; helping in the future, so that we don’t walk in the world blindly, thinking everyone is reunited. I can relate to this topic because I am black and most of the people around me are black so we know how it feels to be here in America where our people were disowned and still today are. This topic keeps me engaged because of knowing more about our history helps us feel important and know that we did come something astounding.

The purpose of this research is to acknowledge the existence of rape in the black community as well as the hypersexualization of African American women in the media. This research will elaborate on the psychological effect of rape, give personal testimonies of victims, and discuss solutions, prevention, as well as a history of the “where, when, and why” of this crime. It will also discuss the effect of rape on men, provide information in regards to the most common places rape occurs/has occurred and also give light on the perspective of men and women when it comes to the issue of sexual assault.

On June 20th I had the opportunity to interview a strong young black woman named Kelasia Edwards. Kelasia is short for “Kel”. She told me so many interesting things about her life. Kelasia is now 18 years old, and her birthday is April 23rd. She was born and raised in Alabama. She graduated from Murphy High School in May 2017. In high school, Kelasia played Volleyball. Volleyball was her biggest passion.

Racism is a belief that one race is superior or inferior to another race. And it is defined as hatred by one person to another due to their difference in skin color, beliefs, language and so on and so forth. One factor that promoted racism is darwinism. Today racism influenced hatred and discrimination. I am going to use two articles “Are prisons obsolete?”

In Patricia Hill Collins’ “Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images,” she illustrates four main stereotypes that Black women face. The first controlling image applied to African American women is “The Mammy.” The mammy is the faithful, obedient servant to the white family and the stereotype attempts to hide the fact that black women who work for white families are being exploited. By loving and caring for her white “children” more than her own, the mammy symbolizes the dominant group’s perceptions of the ideal black female relationship to elite white male power. The smiling mammy signals her agreement with the situation, seemingly accepting her subordination (Collins, 71). Next is the image of the Black matriarch (Collins, 73). According to the stereotype, they spend too much time away from home, are overly aggressive and unfeminine, and allegedly emasculate their lovers and husbands. This stereotype attempts to control conduct by punishing black women for assertiveness and hides the oppression by making it seem that black women are naturally this way (Collins, 74-75).