Black women experience higher rates of sexual assault or rape than their White counterparts
and the US Department of Justice finds only one Black woman out of 15 will report her rape …

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated
against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of …

In addition to performing racial identity on Black Twitter, Black users also use the platform to
host discourse on Blackness. Tweets, hashtags, and trends associated with the television …

This article reviews the literature on the socially constructed knowledge or myths about
Black women by placing it within a cultural context. I identify three domains of research …

This research saliently deconstructs the philosophical writing of a white, privileged male by
five diverse academic peers by using a methodology of deconstruction to analyze the initial …

This article focuses on the emergence of a new genre of advice literature in the mid-2000s.
Primarily written by and aimed at black women, it urges them to date and marry outside the …

This article concerns itself with the ways that Black women have taken up# BlackGirlMagic
as a critical reimagining of their subject positionalities as Black women. I argue that# …

In God Help the Child, Toni Morrison's latest novel, set in our contemporary times, her
oeuvre seems to have come full circle when she revisits the main themes she dealt with in …

Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws are color-blind and gender neutral in language, providing all
citizens the right to use deadly force with no obligation to retreat when they experience a …

For the first time in television history, Shonda Rhimes, a Black female showrunner obtained
an entire prime time programming block on American broadcast television. She has been …