Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

By Melissa Harris-Perry. 2011

Subfields: AI Ethics, Fairness & Society, Social Sciences & Humanities

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2. Rachel Rudinger
3. Dawn M. Dow
4. Samuel R. Bowman
5. Shikha Bordia
6. Chandler May

Citations in the corpus

• On Measuring Social Biases in Sentence Encoders (2019, methodology): “Double Binds Women face many double binds, contradictory or unsatisfiable expectations of femininity and masculinity (Stone and Lovejoy, 2004; Harris-Perry, 2011; Mitchell, 2012).”
• The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys (2016, background): “…temperament, and financial well-being are used to justify policies that disempower women of color (Collins 2004, 2009; Gilliam 1999; hancock 2003; harris-Perry 2011) and impact African Americans’ experiences in their Dow / RAISING AFRICAN AMERICAN BOYS 165 workplaces, school settings, and other…”
• Leading with their hearts? How gender stereotypes of emotion lead to biased evaluations of female leaders (2016, unknown): “For example, in America, people not only believe that Black women display more anger than White women (Durik et al., 2006), but also that, in general, Black women are simply “angry” (i.e., the “angry Black woman” stereotype) (Harris-Perry, 2011).”