Essay On Disparities Among African American Women

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Statement of Problem

African American women are “often vilified and/or criticized for doing work” too early on time, too well or not good enough. They are labeled as either an overachiever or a slacker, as too ambitious or lazy. Robin M. Boylorn who is a Assistant Professor at University of Alabama and specializes in storied experiences of black girls and women argue African American female women “struggle to find the balance between these things” or “know that some people assume you got your job, promotion, award, or special recognition not because you worked your ass off or deserve it, but because you are black.” She says, “there goes that damn black privilege again, cause you know affirmative action causes folk to get jobs they are unqualified for” (Crunk Feminist Collection, 2014). The claims are racial microaggressions that African American adolescents face and continue to face when they grow up. Most African American females do not share their narrative of their truths-that is the racial barriers they have to overcome at work, school, and home. They face both explicit and
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Mayes and Cohran argue (2007) discrimination among African American has harmful effects on the health and the cause of race-based disparities have external effects on how students learn. The internal effects on their brain functioning and how they perceive themselves are correlated to self-care, social media, and social identity. Poverty alone cannot explain the black and white divide, even with social economic status being controlled; African Americans still experienced 38,000 deaths per year in United State (Franks, 2005). There is no doubt that health disparities and racial/ethnic minority status is highly linked to both actual and perceived race-based discrimination faced in the social space of the external