Racal/Ethnic Variations in Negative Peer Support for Woman Abuse on the College Campus

• In Event: Gendered Voices and the Intersectionality of Victimization

Abstract

Advances in social scientific understandings of female racial/minority college students’ experiences of woman abuse have not kept pace with the vast amount of theoretical and empirical work on the plight of their White female counterparts. What is especially needed is a study that examines racial/ethnic variations in negative peer support for various types of female victimization in institutions of higher learning. Using results of the Campus Quality of Life Survey conducted at a large residential school in the South Atlantic region of the U.S., the main objective of this article is to determine whether female minority students are more likely than Whites to have friends who abuse women and who verbally encourage such victimization.

Authors

• Walter S. DeKeseredy, West Virginia University

• Alison Marganski, Le Moyne College

• Adam J. Pritchard, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University

• James Nolan, West Virginia University