Patricia Hill Collins'sBlack Sexual Politicsand the Genealogy of the Strong Black Woman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4577698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Wyatt (Occidental College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-67 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240650701759516 |
| OpenAlex | W1988141902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 12 |
Increasingly, as Black Sexual Politics nears its ending, a shift in tone and level of intensity makes a reader aware that Collins's analysis of interlocking social institutions and media representations is aimed not just at informing, but at liberating, individual African American readers—that she wishes to give African American men and women the tools to resist the internalization of racist sexual ideology and denigrating gender roles. The texts that I examine here—by young Black feminist writers Veronica Chambers, Joan Morgan, and Kimberley Springer, along with a response to their work from Sheila Radford-Hill—continue Collins's deconstructive work on Black gender stereotypes by focusing on the Strong Black Woman role. These autobiographical/theoretical texts not only provide a historical context for the role's origins and development, but also add a psychological and emotional dimension: they tell us what it means to individual African American women to live up to the gender role requirements of Strong Black Woman. Juxtaposed through my analysis, these texts provide a kind of dialogue that moves, in the spirit of Collins' earlier pioneering work on standpoint theory, toward a collective standpoint on the Strong Black Woman gender role and its psychic and emotional costs
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Racial identity and reasons for living in African American female suicide attempters
Becoming Strong
Using counter-narrative to disrupt dominant perspectives in education
Identifying and Explaining the Harmful Effects of Stalking Victimization
Is separate the new equal? A meta‐analytic review of correlates of intimate partner violence victimization for Black and White women in the United States
Race, Ambivalent Sexism, and Perceptions of Situations When Police Shoot Black Women
Benevolent racism? The impact of target race on ambivalent sexism
Is ‘Victim-Survivor’ Our Imperfect Alternative to Describing People with Lived Experience of Sexual Violence? A Feminist Symbolic Interactionist Analysis, Considering How Ethnicity, Gender, and Disability Interact with Language Choice
African American Sexual Assault Survivors and Mental Health Help-Seeking
Black Girl Magic
Beyond the Rape “Victim”–“Survivor” Binary
I'm Not Ashamed to Talk on It!”
Strong Black Women
The Strong Black Woman Concept
Racially Charged
The Strong Black Woman Archetype and Therapeutic Outcomes
Social Media Contributions to Strong Black Woman Ideal Endorsement and Black Women’s Mental Health
Associations Between Femininity and Women's Political Behavior During Midlife
Embodying Strength
Strong Like My Mama
Surviving Being Black and a Clinician During a Dual Pandemic
I'm Black, I'm Strong, and I Need Help”
Interpersonal Violence Among African American Young Adult Women and the Violence Interruption Process as a Bystander Intervention
The Retrospective Roles of Black Women in the Coddling of Black Boys
Flights for Freedom With Her Words”
Struggling to survive
Black Adolescents' Television Usage and Endorsement of Mainstream Gender Roles and the Strong Black Woman Schema
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,69 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |