Black women are of sub-Saharan African, Indigenous Australian, and Melanesian descent.[citation needed] Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw developed the theory...

to mixing between blacks and whites led to the passage of laws banning their intermarriage. At the same time, a fear of Asian women's sexual superiority...

Women in Black (Hebrew: נשים בשחור, romanized: Nashim BeShahor) is a women's anti-war movement with an estimated 10,000 activists around the world. The...

referring to the combined force of anti-Black racism and misogyny directed towards black women. The term was coined by black feminist writer Moya Bailey in 2008...

The angry black woman stereotype is a racial stereotype of Black American women as pugnacious, poorly mannered, and aggressive. Among stereotypes of groups...

Black women have been involved in American socio-political issues and advocating for the community since the American Civil War era through organizations...

been criticized for allegedly contributing to the social degradation of black women and Latinas. The video vixen is believed to have arrived around the late...

barriers of racism, capitalism, and sexism that African American women experience. Black women have been victims of violence and abuse since 1619 during the...

The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by...

movement campaigns for black women in the United States against anti-Black violence and police violence. Gender-specific ways black women are affected by police...

Tanenbaum “When Black Women Challenge Slut-Shaming.” When Black Women Challenge Slut-Shaming, www.leoratanenbaum.com/newsletter/black-women-slut-shaming...

the sexualization of Black girls, completely dichotomous to the sexualization of Black girls is the infantilization of Black women. Both of these problems...

components: emotional restraint, independence, and caretaking. Strong black women must hold back their emotions to avoid appearing weak, portray themselves...

Stereotypes of black females include depictions which portray them as welfare queens or depictions which portray them as angry black women who are loud...

The Women in Black is a 1993 novel by Australian author Madeleine St John. It is her first novel, and is the only one she set in Australia. The novel tells...

the intersectionality of racism and sexism.  Black feminism philosophy centers on the idea that "Black women are inherently valuable, that liberation is...

if not all black women recognized and formed relationships with other black women in the scene. This has not deterred the passion that black female junglists...

ridiculing dark-skinned black women with lyrics that implied those women were less attractive than light-skinned black women, which is considered a type...

Women. Black women gained the legal right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920. With women gaining...

A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic work, including nursing children. The fictionalized...

dark-haired women as more attractive than women with blond hair. A 2018 study conducted in Florida produced similar results. In East Asia, women with black hair...

Black women filmmakers have made contributions throughout the history of film. According to Nsenga Burton, writer for The Root, "the film industry remains...

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a 2016 nonfiction book written by Margot Lee...

"Congressional Black Caucus". cbc.house.gov. Retrieved March 8, 2023. "It's Official: We Now Have a Congressional Caucus For Black Women and Girls". Essence...

successful black women who challenge the institutions of black patriarchy. Nasheed also uses the term "buck breaking" to refer to the sexual abuse of Black men...

Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. hooks examines the effect...

history of women in the United States encompasses the lived experiences and contributions of women throughout American history. The earliest women living...

contrast to 91% of Caucasian and Hispanic women, and 92% of Asian American women. This situation results in black women having the highest rate of unintended...

free black people existed in North America. Various groups contributed to the growth of the free Negro population: children born to colored free women (see...

Some Black women in modeling agencies are forced to straighten their hair. However, more Black women are resisting and choosing to wear Black hairstyles...