In Schools, Black Girls Confront Both Racial and Gender Bias
Brooke LePage
The NWLC released a 2018 report titled “Dress Coded: Black Girls, Bodies, and Bias in D.C. Schools” that detailed their findings from interviews with Black...
How the Adultification of Black Girls Is Stealing Their Childhoods and Derailing Their Futures.
Andrea Reindl
In Blake’s study, Black women shared anecdotal evidence of the challenges they faced when simply interacting with teachers at school. “he minute that...
50 Black Women Share What Living In America Feels Like In Three Words
MadameNoire, Natalie Petit-Frere
In this same era, enslaved women could not testify against their masters when they raped them because they’d been deemed inherently promiscuous and therefore incapable of sexual assault –a stigma that still follows us today. Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality conducted a study on the “adultification” of Black girls in 2017, finding Black girls were perceived to be “less innocent, and more adult-like than white girls of the same age, especially in the age range of 5-14.” The study also revealed that adults believe Black girls require less protection, nurturing, and support than white girls and have more knowledge of sex.
Model Imaan Hammam speaks up about adultification of black girls
The two-minute long video was created by the US’s Georgetown University Law Center for an initiative called “Gender Justice and Opportunity” that works...