Women of Color
On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism against women of color, broken down into the following sections:
Issues for Women of Color: Abuse, Adultification Bias, Algorithm Bias, BIPOC, Criminalization, Domestic Abuse, Economic Vulnerability, Exploitation, Fetishization, Foster System, Gender Bias, Gendered Racial Microaggressions/ Oppression/Racism/ Violence, Intersectional Feminism, Institution Sanctioned Violence, Intersectional Oppression, Invisibility, Lesbian, #MeToo, Medical Gaslighting, Misogynoir, Missing-White-Woman Syndrome, Neglect, Patriarchy, Pay Inequity, Police Brutality, Queer Women, Rape Crisis, Reproductive Rights, #SayHerName, Sexism, Sexual Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline, Sexual Violence, State Sanctioned Violence, Stereotypes, Stigmatization, Strong-Black-Woman Schema, Systemic Oppression, Transgender Women, Trauma, Wage Gap
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Video Clips
Source: AJ+ (2015, May 21).
Source: TED. (2016, December 7). The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o
Source: CNN. (2021, September 22). How 'missing White woman syndrome' has real life implications. YouTube. https://youtu.be/uBWyG09rAMc
Source: Vice News. (2020, December 3). Indigenous Women Keep Going Missing in Montana. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib0GDAPeymo
Source: CBS News. (2021, March 22). Sociologist on America's history of hypersexualizing Asian women. YouTube. https://youtu.be/6c7j9aSGvLs
Source: Vice News. (2020, February 24). Violence Against Black Trans Women Is One of the US' Deadliest Epidemics. YouTube. https://youtu.be/IpYadyI3EiE
Source: PBS NewsHour. (2018, April 18). Why are black mothers and infants far more likely to die in U.S. from pregnancy-related causes? YouTube. https://youtu.be/AODAk-accVc
Source: AJ+ (2019, June 9). Moms Behind Bars: How Cash Bail Is Keeping Women In Jail. YouTube. https://youtu.be/sDHgdDY91W8
Source: NBC News. (2020, February 29). Female Transgender Prisoners Ask To Move Out of Male Prisons. YouTube. https://youtu.be/uBQjOEQhB3k
Source: TED. (2019, Feb. 5). Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that | Monique W. Morris. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7F9XCdeOtw
Source: The Atlantic. (2019, July 9). The Horrific Untold Story of Trans ICE Detention. YouTube. https://youtu.be/VYcggAs_Mg0
Books
Podcasts
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: #SayHerName: I Am My Sister's Keeper
Sold Out
Episode:Why Black Women Are More Likely to Face Eviction
Colorblind
Episode: Black and Missing
At Liberty
Episode: Glitch in the Code: Black Girls and Algorithmic Justice
Code Switch
Episode: Anger: The Black Woman's "Superpower"
The Daily
Episode: A Life-or-Death Crisis for Black Mothers
Black History Year
Episode: Fear of A Black Woman's Body
At Liberty
Episode: How the Olympics Failed Black Women
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: Telling Stories of State Violence & Public Silence
All My Relations
Episode: Protect Indigenous Women
Speaking of Racism
Episode: Women, Prison, and the Criminal Justice System
Laverne Cox
Episode: Ending Violence Toward Trans People w/ Dr. Karen Franklin
Mentor's Circle
Episode: Unpacking Stories and Stereotypes that Harm Black Women
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: When Misogynoir is a Preexisting Condition: Black Women's Health Through the Twin Pandemics
Street Politicians
Episode: Breonna Taylor (Ep.1)
Red Nation
Episode: Gender Violence and Indigenous Resistance
Cite Black Women
Episode: Black Women and Health Equity
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: When They See Her: The Story of Michelle Cusseaux
In The Thick
Episode: Birth Care for Every Body
Articles
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- (2022) The killings of Black women: five findings from our investigation | The Gaurdian
- (2021) ‘More Than Just Tragic’: Ma’Khia Bryant and the Burden of Black Girlhood | New York Times
- (2021) 50 Black women have been killed by US police since 2015. | Insider
- (2020) Black women are the victims of police violence, too | Washington Post
- (2020) Black Women's Experiences With Police Brutality Must Be 'Invisible No More' | NPR
- (2022) Federal Officials Charge Four Officers in Breonna Taylor Raid | New York Times
- (2021) Family, advocates seek answers following a trans woman’s death at Baltimore city jail | Baltimore Sun
- (2020) Here's What You Need to Know About Breonna Taylor's Death | New York Times
- (2020) Since 2015: 48 Black Women Killed by the Police. And Only 2 Charges. | New York Times
- (2015) This Unarmed Black Woman Was Shot by the Police, So Why Aren't We Marching for Her? | Mic
- (2020) Police Shot a Black Trans Woman 16 Times. The D.A. Says It Was “Justifiable” | them
- (2020) Why police often single out trans people for violence | Vox
- (2022) Black women will suffer the most without Roe | Vox
- (2022) Women Are Calling Out ‘Medical Gaslighting’ | New York Times
- (2017) Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth | ProPublica and NPR
- (2018) Pregnant And Detained | NPR
- (2020) The U.S. Finally has Better Maternal Mortality Data. Black Mothers Still Fare the Worst. | NBC News
- (2020) When Maternity Wards in Black Neighborhoods Disappear | New York Times
- (2021) Why Black Women Are Rejecting Hospitals in Search of Better Births | New York Times
- (2020) 'You are not listening to me': Black women on pain and implicit bias in medicine | Today
- (2020) Forced Sterilization of Women of Color Is an American Tradition | The Intercept
- (2020) Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most | New York Times
- (2022) Federal Prisons Failed to Stop a Pattern of Sexual Abuse Against Women| Intercept
- (2020) Back in Prison, Transgender Woman Faces an Old Horror, Sexual Assault | New York Times
- (2019) A new report shows how racism and bias deny black girls their childhoods | Vox
- (2017) Advocates Say Cyntoia Brown's Case Is Part Of The 'Sexual Abuse-To-Prison' Pipeline | NPR
- (2018) A Mother Describes Her Experience In Migrant Detention | NPR
- (2018) Pregnant And Detained | NPR
- (2019) Black Trans Women Are Being Murdered. Why Aren't There More Arrests? | Vice
- (2021) I’m a Trans Woman Locked in a Men’s Prison. I’m Fighting to Be Free | them
- (2020) Why women dying in prisons are among the less visible victims of Covid-19 | Gaurdian
- (2021) 31 Guards Suspended at a Women’s Prison Plagued by Sexual Violence | New York Times
- (2020) Federal Report Says Women In Prison Receive Harsher Punishments Than Men | NPR
- (2020) Black Girls With Disabilities Are Disproportionately Criminalized | Teen Vogue
- (2020) Prisons created the blueprint for reproductive violence in immigrant detention | Prism
- (2020) Why the Pay Gap for Working Moms Is a Race Issue | Time Magazine
- (2020) Black and Hispanic workers, especially women, lag in the U.S. economic recovery. | New York Times
- (2021) Black women were half as likely to be hired for state or local jobs than white men, a report says. | New York Times
- (2020) Domestic Workers Are Being Left Out of the Stimulus | AJ+
- (2018) Serena’s Not Alone. Women Are Penalized for Anger at Work, Especially Black Women. | New YorkTimes
- (2020) 'My Family Needs Me': Latinas Drop Out Of Workforce At Alarming Rates | NPR
- (2021) Pandemic Sets Back Women's Progress In Workforce | NPR
- (2019) Reminder: Today isn’t Equal Pay Day for all Women | CNBC
- (2020) Some Undocumented Domestic Workers Slip Through Holes In Coronavirus Safety Net | NPR
- (2021) These Single Moms Are Forced to Choose: Reveal Their Sexual Histories or Forfeit Welfare | ProPublica
- (2020) 'I cannot be silent': exposing the racial pay gap among influencers | Gaurdian
- (2021) Black women in tech make 90 cents for every dollar a white man makes | Vox
- (2022) When justice isn’t served, how do we find forgiveness? | Vox
- (2020) Why Won’t Society Let Black Girls Be Children? | New York Times
- (2021) Recent Olympic rulings show dehumanization of Black women in sports| Salon
- (2021) 31 Guards Suspended at a Women’s Prison Plagued by Sexual Violence | New York Times
- (2021) Fetishized, Sexualized and Marginalized, Asian Women are Uniquely Vulnerable to Violence | CNN
- (2017) For Native Americans Facing Sexual Assault, Justice Feels Out Of Reach | NPR
- (2021) How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women | New York Times
- (2019) Native American Women Are Facing a Crisis | New York Times
- (2020) Rural Montana Had Already Lost Too Many Native Women. Then Selena Disappeared.
- (2021) A Sociologist's View On The Hyper-Sexualization Of Asian Women In American Society | NPR
- (2020) Pipelines, man camps and murdered Indigenous women in Canada | Al Jazeera
- (2019) For A Black Woman In The Military, Harassment Was Its Own Battle | NPR
- (2018) Fewer Immigrants Are Reporting Domestic Abuse. Police Blame Fear of Deportation | New York Times
- (2020) Femicide Is a Growing Issue in the United States | Teen Vogue
- (2020) Black women, the forgotten survivors of sexual assault | APA Newsletter
- (2018) Women Of Color Are Severely Underrepresented In Newsrooms, Study Says | NPR
- (2021) 'Fully Erased': With Harris' Rise, There Are No Black Women In The Senate | NPR
- (2015) Critics Say Women Are Neglected By Black Lives Matter Campaign | NPR
- (2014) A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color | B*itch Media
- (2018) How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women | New York Times
- (2021) Have you seen these 51 women? | Chicago Reader
- (2016) Activists and Legislators Shine a Spotlight on the Criminalization of Black Girls | Intercept
- (2020) Black Women's Experiences With Police Brutality Must Be 'Invisible No More' | NPR
Scholarship
- (2019) Barriers to Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Indian Country | by Jeremy Braithwaite
- (2020) Black Women and Girls & #MeToo: Rape, Cultural Betrayal, & Healing. | Jennifer M. Gómez
- (2018) Women of color and the war on crime: An explanation for the rise in Black female imprisonment. | Mark G. Harmon
- (2018) Lock Her Up!” How Women Have Become the Fastest-Growing Population in the American Carceral State. | Spencer Beall
- (2020) Why Are We So Mad? The Truth Behind “Angry” Black Women and Their Legal Invisibility as Victims of Domestic Violence | Amber Simmons
- (2017) Invisible Violence: Gender, Islamophobia, and the Hidden Assault on U.S. Muslim Women | by Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson
- (2018) Visibly Unknown: Media Depiction of Murdered Transgender Women of Color | Frank Wood
- (2017) The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence | Michelle S. Jacobs
- (2018) The Uneven Geographies of America's Hidden Rape Crisis: A District-Level Analysis of Underpolicing in St. Louis | by Alec Brownlow
- (2020) Crossing Boundaries and Fetishization: Experiences of Sexual Violence for Trans Women of Color | Jane Ussher
- (2012) Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers | by Dorothy Roberts
- (2020) Experiences of Structural Violence in the Lives of Undocumented Latinas. | Rakhshanda Saleem
- (2020) Living in the Blast Zone: Sexual Violence Piped onto Native Land by Extractive Industries | by Lily Grisafi
- (2019) Low-Income Black Mothers Parenting Adolescents in the Mass Incarceration Era: The Long Reach of Criminalization | Sinikka Elliott
- (1991) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color | by Kimberle Crenshaw
- (2017) On Violence, Intersectionality and Transversal Politics | by Patricia Hill Collins
- (2018) Policing Black Women's and Black Girls' Bodies in the Carceral United States. | Kali Nicole Gross
- (2016) Revealing a Hidden Curriculum of Black Women’s Erasure in Sexual Violence Prevention Policy | by Sara Carrigan Wooten
- (2020) Trauma at home: A queer Black feminist's experience in the afterlife of state‐sanctioned violence in Ferguson. | Chelsey R. Carter
- (2019) (Trans)forming #MeToo: Toward a Networked Response to Gender Violence | by Jo V. Hsu
- (2021) Policy as Punishment and Distraction: The Double Helix of Racialized Sexual Harassment of Black Girls | by Jennifer Wilmot
- (2020) “See Me, See Us”: Understanding the Intersections and Continued Marginalization of Adolescent Gifted Black Girls in U.S. Classrooms | Brittany Anderson
- (2019) Admirable or Ridiculous?": The Burdens of Black Women Scholars and Dialogue in the Work of Solidarity | by Darius D'wayne HIlls
- (2020) Teaching While Black and Female: Navigating Mental, Curricular, and Professional Aggression. | Stephen Hancock
- (2016) Against Captivity: Black Girls and School Discipline Policies in the Afterlife of Slavery | by Connie Wun
- (2019) Un/Doing Intersectionality through Higher Education Research | Jessica Harris
- (2019) A Mixed Methods Study of Black Girls' Vulnerability to Out-of-School Suspensions: The Intersection of Race and Gender | by Priscilla Gibson
- (2021) In Their Own Words: The Meaning of the Strong Black Woman Schema among Black U.S. College Women. | Martinque K. Jones
- (2020) An examination of Black women's experiences in undergraduate engineering on a primarily white campus: Considering institutional strategies for change. | Emily Blosser
- (2019) Theorizing Black women's experiences with institution-sanctioned violence: a #BlackLivesMatter imperative toward Black liberation on campus. | Lorri D. Patton
- (2016) Whose Lives Really Matter: The Invisibility of African American Women in the Political Discourse of the Black Lives Matter Campaign. | Mamie Lock
- (2020) Closed Borders, Closed Hearts: Systemic Oppression of Latinas in U.S. Politics | Kipp Pietrantonio
- (2021) Policy as Punishment and Distraction: The Double Helix of Racialized Sexual Harassment of Black Girls | by Jennifer Wilmot
- (2014) Complicating the Triangle of Race, Class and State: the Insights of Black Feminists | by Dorothy Roberts
- (2018 An Exploration of Black Women’s Gendered Racial Identity Using a Multidimensional and Intersectional Approach | Martinque K. Jones
- (2013) Google Search: Hyper-visibility as a Means of Rendering Black Women and Girls Invisible | by Safiya U. Noble
- (2020) Intersectional Invisibility Revisited: How Group Prototypes Lead to the Erasure and Exclusion of Black Women | by Stewart M. Coles
- (2020) The Persistence of White Supremacy: Indigenous Women Migrants and the Structures of Settler Capitalism. | Shannon Speed
- (2013) Social Rhetoric and the Construction of Black Motherhood | Nicole Rousseau
- (2018) When Sexism Leads to Racism: Threat, Protecting Women, and Racial Bias | Jean McMahon
- (2023) Mechanisms Connecting Police Brutality, Intersectionality, and Women's Health Over the Life Course | Sirry Alang
- (2022) Gendered Racism on the Body: An Intersectional Approach to Maternal Mortality in the United States | by Evelyn J. Patterson
- (2019) Economic Vulnerability Among US Female Health Care Workers: Potential Impact of a $15-per-Hour Minimum Wage | Kathryn E. W. Himmelstein
- (2014) Racial/Ethnic Disparities in History of Incarceration, Experiences of Vicitimization, and Associated Health Indicators Among Transgender Women in the U.S. | by Sari L. Reisner
- (2019) Trauma, immigration, and sexual health among Latina women: Implications for maternal–child well‐being and reproductive justice | Sheri Lapatin Markle
- (2016) What Does the Minimum Wage Have to Do with Reproductive Rights? | Terry O'neill
- (2019) Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework | by Moya Bailey and Izetta Autumn Mobley
- (2020) 'But I'm not allowed to be mad': How Black women cope with gendered racial microaggressions through writing. | Alexcia M. Kilgore
- (2018) Controlling Beauty Ideals: Caribbean Women, Thick Bodies, and White Supremacist Discourse.| by Kamille Gentles-Peart
- (2018) Double Fault: Serena Williams and Tennis at the Intersection of Race and Gender | by Lori Latrice Martin
- (2015) Feelings of Belonging: An Exploratory Analysis of the Sociopolitical Involvement of Black, Latina, and Asian/Pacific Islander Sexual Minority Women. | Angelique Harris
- (2018) Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale for Asian American Women: Development and Initial Validation. | Brian TaeHyuk Keum
- (2019) A Hidden Culture of Coping: Insights on African American Women's Existence in Predominately White Institutions | Danielle Apugo
- (2018) Navigating the Workplace: The Costs and Benefits of Shifting Identities at Work among Early Career U.S. Black Women. | Danielle D. Dickens
- (2014) Pushing into Precious: Black Women, Media Representation, and the Glare of the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchal Gaze | by Rachel Alicia Griffin
- (2007) Reading Representations of Black, East Asian, and White Women in Magazines for Adolescent Girls. | Rhea Sengupta
- (2020) Stigma Experienced by Transgender Women of Color in Their Dating and Romantic Relationships: Implications for Gender-based Violence Prevention Programs | Kristi Gamarel
- (2019) The Stigmatization of Queer Black Women in Television. | Thomas Cruz
- (2017) Subordinates, Sex Objects, or Sapphires? Investigating Contributions of Media Use to Black Students’ Femininity Ideologies and Stereotypes about Black Women | by Morgan Jerald
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