Multiple Resistance Strategies: How African American Women Cope with Racism and Sexism

By K. Shorter-Gooden. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Price of Strength: Black College Women’s Perspectives on the Strong Black Woman Stereotype (2016, background): “Unlike the emasculating Matriarch, subservient Mammy, and hypersexual Jezebel, SBW provides the illusion of a pathway, albeit narrow, to acceptance and respectability for Black women (Collins, 2004; Harris-Perry, 2011; Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2004; Romero, 2000; Woods-Giscombé, 2010).”
Coping With Racism: What Works and Doesn’t Work for Black Women? (2010, background): “As Shorter-Gooden (2004) has claimed, avoidant coping may be beneficial for living with oppressive circumstances that cannot be changed.”
Comparing Sexual Harassment Subtypes Among Black and White Women by Military Rank: Double Jeopardy, the Jezebel, and the Cult of True Womanhood (2008, background): “Specifically, Black women may also experience racial harassment in addition to sexual harassment, which could affect their well-being (Buchanan & Fitzgerald, 2008; King, 2003; Shorter-Gooden, 2004).”
The Misunderstood Schema of the Strong Black Woman: Exploring Its Mental Health Consequences and Coping Responses Among African American Women (2020, background): “In spite of the mixed findings regarding its effectiveness in the literature, African American women often engage in this strategy to cope with racerelated incidents that are perceived as beyond one’s ability to control (Shorter-Gooden, 2004).”
Coping With Racism: A Selective Review of the Literature and a Theoretical and Methodological Critique (2009, background): “Within the Black community, seeking social support has sometimes been more specifically labeled as “leaning on shoulders” (Shorter-Gooden 2004).”
“Ain’t I a Woman?” (2016, background): “For example, Shorter-Gooden (2004) interviewed 196 community Black women to explore their strategies for coping with racism and sexism and found that women reported experiencing both race- and gender-related stereotypes, particularly in the workplace.”
Gendered Racism, Coping, Identity Centrality, and African American College Women’s Psychological Distress (2016, background): “…school and college students have found that African American women often use resistance and education/advocacy strategies as a way to proactively cope with gendered racism and avert its potentially negative effects (Everett, Hall, & Hamilton-Mason, 2010; Lewis et al., 2013; Shorter-Gooden, 2004).”
Stress and Mental Health (2015, background): “therapeutic experience for Black college women given the importance of social support and “leaning on shoulders” (Shorter-Gooden, 2004).”
Racism and Sexism as Correlates of African American Women’s Psychological Distress (2010, methodology): “Shorter-Gooden 2004 ) to develop scales to assess these ways of coping and then to use them in research examining the racism-distress and sexism-distress links to determine which strategies might buffer or exacerbate these links.”