Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin. Trudier HarrisBlack and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature. Minrose C. GwinConjuring, Black Women, Fiction, and Tradition. Marjorie Pryse , Hortense Spillers

Background: Self-poisoning (overdose) is the commonest form of self-harm cases presenting to acute secondary care services in the UK, where there has been limited investigation of self-harm in black and minority ethnic communities. London has the UK’s most ethnically diverse areas but presents challenges in resident-based data collection due to the large number of hospitals. Aims: To investigate the rates and characteristics of self-poisoning presentations in two central London boroughs. Method: All incident cases of self-poisoning presentations of residents of Lambeth and Southwark were identified over a 12-month period through comprehensive acute and mental health trust data collection systems at multiple hospitals. Analysis was done using STATA 12.1. Results: A rate of 121.4/100,000 was recorded across a population of more than half a million residents. Women exceeded men in all measured ethnic groups. Black women presented 1.5 times more than white women. Gender ratios within ethnicities were marked. Among those aged younger than 24 years, black women were almost 7 times more likely to present than black men were. Conclusion: Self-poisoning is the commonest form of self-harm presentation to UK hospitals but population-based rates are rare. These results have implications for formulating and managing risk in clinical services for both minority ethnic women and men.

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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature (review)

College Literature ◽

10.1353/lit.2003.0022 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 182-184

Author(s):

Terry Rowden

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Black Women ◽

Literature Review ◽

American Literature ◽

African American Literature ◽

Strong Black Women

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Race, Gender, and Perceived Employment Discrimination

Journal of Black Studies ◽

10.1177/00219347211006486 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 52 (5) ◽

pp. 509-527

Author(s):

Philip Q. Yang

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

White Women ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Employment Discrimination ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Self Report ◽

Independent Effect ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Job Discrimination ◽

And Gender

This study investigates the effects of race and gender on perceived employment discrimination using the 2016 General Social Survey that provides new data on perceived employment discrimination that aligns more closely with the legal definition of employment discrimination. It is found that 19% of the American adults self-reported the experience of employment discrimination in job application, pay increase, or promotion in the past 5 years. The results of logistic regression analysis show that either controlling or not controlling for other factors, Blacks were much more likely to perceive being discriminated in employment than Whites, but other races were not significantly different from Whites in perceived employment discrimination after holding other variables constant. While gender did not have a significant independent effect on perceived job discrimination, it did interact with race to influence perceived job discrimination. Regardless of race, women were somewhat less likely than men to perceive job discrimination, but Black women were significantly even less likely than White women to self-report job discrimination, and Black men were much more likely to self-report employment discrimination than White men. These findings have implications for combating employment discrimination and addressing social inequalities.

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Racial Disparities in Pregnancy-associated Intimate Partner Homicide

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260521990831 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 088626052199083

Author(s):

Aaron J. Kivisto ◽

Samantha Mills ◽

Lisa S. Elwood

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Racial Disparities ◽

White Women ◽

The United States ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Intimate Partner Homicide ◽

Homicide Victimization ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Racial Ethnic

Pregnancy-associated femicide accounts for a mortality burden at least as high as any of the leading specific obstetric causes of maternal mortality, and intimate partners are the most common perpetrators of these homicides. This study examined pregnancy-associated and non-pregnancy-associated intimate partner homicide (IPH) victimization among racial/ethnic minority women relative to their non-minority counterparts using several sources of state-level data from 2003 through 2017. Data regarding partner homicide victimization came from the National Violent Death Reporting System, natality data were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, and relevant sociodemographic information was obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau. Findings indicated that pregnancy and racial/ethnic minority status were each associated with increased risk for partner homicide victimization. Although rates of non-pregnancy-associated IPH victimization were similar between Black and White women, significant differences emerged when limited to pregnancy-associated IPH such that Black women evidenced pregnancy-associated IPH rates more than threefold higher than that observed among White and Hispanic women. Relatedly, the largest intraracial discrepancies between pregnant and non-pregnant women emerged among Black women, who experienced pregnancy-associated IPH victimization at a rate 8.1 times greater than their non-pregnant peers. These findings indicate that the racial disparities in IPH victimization in the United States observed in prior research might be driven primarily by the pronounced differences among the pregnant subset of these populations.

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