Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, Democratic Process & the Democratic Party

• In Event: Race, Gender, and Politics

Abstract

Black women’s political behavior is not only distinct from the political behavior of Black men, but it is also distinct from the behavior of white women and other women of color. Recent scholarship finds that once an intersectional approach is taken and data is disaggregated by race and gender, white women’s political behavior is different than that of women of color (Frasure-Yokley 2018). Ambivalent (hostile) sexism functions differently for white women than women of color (Frasure-Yokley 2018). Due to the small number of Black women surveyed in the 2016 ANES, Frasure-Yokley was only able to analyze white women in relation to women of color. The Collaborative Multi-Racial Post-Election Survey’s large sample of Black women allows us to further disaggregate the population of women in our analysis. We explore the ways in which other dispositions like political efficacy and candidate favorability function differently for Black women.

Authors

• Christina M. Greer, Fordham University

• Christine Marie Slaughter, University of California Los Angeles

• Chaya Crowder, Princeton University