Adultification Bias
How The Adultification Bias Contributes To Black Trauma
by toella | Apr 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Examining patterns of police treatment towards Black youth highlights a prominent issue: the adultification bias, which is the phenomenon where adults perceive Black youth as being older than they actually are....
‘It’s More Than Just Tragic’: Ma’Khia Bryant and the Burden of Black Girlhood
by toella | Apr 26, 2021 | Adultification Bias
“Because of layers of gendered racism, adults tend to view Black girls as more threatening, more aggressive, more mature and less innocent than white girls of the same age, robbing Black...
by Go Fish | Nov 09, 2020 | Adultification Bias
As a result, Black girls are often either suspended for violating dress code policies or pulled out of the classroom to change their clothes. Black girls are also disproportionately pulled out...
Racism, Implicit Biases Negatively Impact Credibility of Domestic Violence Survivors
by Go Fish | Nov 06, 2020 | Adultification Bias
My colleagues at New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), where I am a supervising attorney in the Domestic Violence Law Unit, and I often see that when clients of color report...
MOSES: Oversexualization of Black girls, women must stop
by Go Fish | Oct 21, 2020 | Adultification Bias
The views that Black women are innately promiscuous and sexually predatory is exactly why Black girls do not have never had the liberty of being children. Instead, they are forced to...
Lesson of the Day: ‘A Battle for the Souls of Black Girls’
by Go Fish | Oct 09, 2020 | Adultification Bias
Lesson Overview Featured Article: “‘A Battle for the Souls of Black Girls’” by Erica L. Green, Mark Walker and Eliza Shapiro For years, education reform has looked at discipline disparities between...
In Schools, Black Girls Confront Both Racial and Gender Bias
by Go Fish | Oct 06, 2020 | Adultification Bias
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 girls in D.C. public middle or high schools...
‘A Battle for the Souls of Black Girls’
by Go Fish | Oct 01, 2020 | Adultification Bias
Black girls are viewed by educators as more suspicious, mature, provocative and aggressive than their white peers, said Rebecca Epstein, the executive director of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and...
When A Black Teenager Killed Her Rapist, Kenosha Had No Tolerance For Vigilante Justice.
by Becca Shopiro | Sep 14, 2020 | Adultification Bias
Black girls meanwhile, find far less empathy. They are routinely seen as older than they are, and sexualized by society at a young age. A recent study by the Georgetown Law...
Stop Calling Young Black Girls “Grown.” They’re Kids.
by Becca Shopiro | Sep 14, 2020 | Adultification Bias
As we saw after the R. Kelly documentary, people will lay blame on everyone and everything rather than the responsible party—the perpetrator, the adult that knows better than a child. Victim...