Prototypes of race and gender: The invisibility of Black women

By Amanda K. Sesko, M. Biernat. 2010

349 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. John F. Dovidio
2. April H. Bailey
3. Ashleigh Shelby Rosette
4. R. Livingston
5. Anyi Ma
6. C. Koval
7. Janet S. Hyde
8. Nicole Else-Quest

In Sociology and Political Science

1. April H. Bailey
2. Marianne LaFrance
3. John F. Dovidio
4. Ashleigh Shelby Rosette
5. R. Livingston
6. Anyi Ma
7. C. Koval
8. Janet S. Hyde

Citations in the corpus

• More Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Transformative Theory of Biculturalism (2017, background): “…can interact within an individual to change their experiences of each identity (Howard, 2000; Woollett, Marshall, Nicolson, & Dosanjh, 1994) and provides evidence for unique products that result from combining identities (Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008; Roccas & Brewer, 2002; Sesko & Biernat, 2010).”
• A bed of thorns: Female leaders and the self-reinforcing cycle of illegitimacy (2016, background): “A complementary possibility is that Black women may be seen as less prototypical representations of the category women, and thus rendered “invisible” (Biernat & Sesko, 2013; Sesko & Biernat, 2010).”
• Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research (2016, background): “If homogeneity within social categories is assumed, researchers may make faulty assumptions about the prototypical member of those categories, who is often privileged (e.g., Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008; Sesko & Biernat, 2010).”
• An Intersectional Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Stereotypes (2013, background): “Social cognitive research on racial prototypicality lends further support to the ethnicity hypothesis (e.g., Hugenberg & Sacco, 2008; Sesko & Biernat, 2010).”
• Exploring Identity-Safety Cues and Allyship Among Black Women Students in STEM Environments (2019, background): “Black women also experience discrimination in the form of invisibility or going unnoticed because they do not represent the prototypical Black person (a Black man) or woman (a White woman; Mohr & Purdie-Vaughns, 2015; Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008; Sesko & Biernat, 2010).”
• Race matters for women leaders: Intersectional effects on agentic deficiencies and penalties (2016, result): “For example, across two studies, Sesko and Biernat (2010) showed that Black women were more likely to go unrecognized relative to Black men, White women, and White men. In the first study, when shown a series of photos, White participants were less likely to recall having seen photos of Black women ”
• Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism (2018, background): “The combination of race-based and genderbased atypicality can exacerbate disadvantage; for instance, people tend to forget specific individuals who are doubly atypical of humanity (Black women, Sesko & Biernat, 2010; Asian men, Schug et al., 2015).”
• Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research (2016, background): “Similarly, Sesko and Biernat (2010) examined the intersectional invisibility of Black women within the nonprototypicality hypothesis, maintaining that Black women are perceived as not being prototypical of either Black persons or women and, thus, are marginalized and made invisible.”