To Keep My Self-Respect
Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe's 1927 Memorandum on the Sexual Harassment of Black Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14971680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Bell-Scott (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 70-76 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | NWSA Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-0656 • E-ISSN: 1527-1889 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2979/nws.1997.9.2.70 |
| OpenAlex | W2031150357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
Black women's struggle for self-respect and personal autonomy on the college campus is a long-standing one.' Sexual harassment, defined in 1981 by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights as verbal or physical contact of a sexual nature imposed on the basis of sex, by an employee or agent of a school (Sexual Harassment 3), has been a fact of life for many Black coeds. Yet rarely have they brought formal charges against those who victimize them (memo quoted in ibid.). This has been especially true when the perpetrators have themselves been Black.2 Women courageous enough to raise the issue of harassment have often been victimized (again) in the judicial process. This was the experience of five Black coeds who charged a White male student with harassment at the predominantly White University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Ayanna Taylor, spokeswoman for the group, described the incident at a news conference
Black women · Harassment · Memorandum · Political science · Sociology · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2019 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |