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Black Feminism Reflected through The Narrator’s Responses of Women Oppression In Maya Angelou’s Memoir: A Letter To My Daughter

open access: yesJournal of Language and Literature, 2022
Any unjust situation where one group denies another group is considered as oppression. This condition is possibly initiated by groups that assume their internal attribute as superior to another group.
Elly Santi Pertiwi   +1 more
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“Unmanageable”: Exploring Black Girlhood, Storytelling, and Ideas of Beauty

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2022
This article explores how Black women use storytelling to construct their Black girlhood on the axes of Black hair and beauty politics. The study includes a discourse analysis of a series of focus groups with a student organization dedicated to Black ...
Rowe Kristin Denise
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The Intersectional Experiences of Black Women in Computing

open access: yesTechnical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2020
Efforts to broaden participation in computing have led to gender-focused interventions intended to increase the number of women in the field of computing.
Yolanda A. Rankin, J. Thomas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Review of "The Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment" by Jillian Hernandez (Duke University Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2022
"The Aesthetics of Excess" by Jillian Hernandez is a dazzling and provocative book that deploys the aesthetic as a category to grasp with great care the lives and representations of Black and Latina women whose performance of gender exceeds the white ...
Iván Ramos
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Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics

open access: yesSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2020
In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion and the struggle for women to reconcile “Black woman” with ...
C. Prescod-Weinstein
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘They are just women, what do they know?’: The lived experiences of African women doctoral students in the mathematics discipline in South African universities

open access: yesTransformation in Higher Education, 2022
Background: The presence of African women in mathematics has been nearly invisible. The underrepresentation of African women in this field is a result of their historical socio-political marginalisation.
Zamambo Mkhize
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Exposures to Structural Racism and Racial Discrimination among Pregnant and Early Postpartum Black Women living in Oakland, California.

open access: yesStress and Health, 2020
Research supports that exposure to stressors (e.g., perceived stress, racism) during pregnancy can negatively impact the immune system, which may lead to infection and ultimately increases the risk for having a preterm or low birth weight infant.
B. Chambers   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impact of COVID-19 among Black women: evaluating perspectives and sources of information

open access: yesEthnicity and Health, 2020
Objectives Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has burgeoned into a pandemic that highlights the countless social and health disparities that have existed in Black communities within the United States for centuries.
Rasheeta D. Chandler   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Assessment of Ovarian Cancer Histotypes Across the African Diaspora

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2021
ObjectiveOvarian cancer in Black women is common in many West African countries but is relatively rare in North America. Black women have worse survival outcomes when compared to White women.
Sophia H. L. George   +120 more
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Mental Health Strategies Informed by Black Feminist Thought

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2022
There is currently a gap in the literature that explicitly connects Black feminist thought with psychological theory, research, or intervention. This article review aims to assist in filling the gap and inspire scholars to actively utilize the knowledge ...
Oliphant Vanessa Nicole   +3 more
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