The Black Girl Parenting Study aims to investigate Black parents’ awareness of the gendered racial discrimination that Black women and girls face, with a geographically and socioeconomically diverse sample of Black families. This is one of the first studies to examine Black parental discourse on misogynoir, by connecting parents’ awareness of and potential experiences with misogynoir to their socialization practices.
We know that Black women and girls are uniquely vulnerable to racialized gendered violence within both interpersonal and institutional contexts; in addition, they remain under-examined and too often invisible in public and scholarly discourse on state-sanctioned violence and social justice initiatives. For instance, Black women and girls are disproportionately at risk for educational mistreatment, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and death at the hands of family members, partners, and people they know (African American Policy Forum, 2015).
The lab collected survey and interview data to assess parents’ beliefs and experiences with misogynoir, their concerns regarding their daughters’ experiences with gendered racism, and their parental socialization competencies and coping strategies.