The Girls Are Alright: Examining Protective Factors of US Black Culture and Its Impact on the Resilience of Black Girls and Women

An overarching narrative exists that the self-concept of Black girls is adversely impacted by the negative portrayals of Black Americans in the mainstream media. We assert that this mainstream narrative presents a deficit model account in which Black girls are perpetual victims of white racism. A mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zinobia Bennefield, Taylor Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-09-01
Series:Open Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0148