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What Is Black Women's Mental Health Study?
What Is Black Women's Mental Health Study?
Throughout history, Black women have been pillars of the Black community. They have taken on or had a superwoman persona thrust upon them, and have had to contend with unreasonable expectations and prescribed roles. More recently, they have been called the moral compass of the United States. While there are myriad examples of the ways in which Black women have managed these prescribed roles and expectations with strength, compassion, and grit, Black women have also experienced the deleterious consequences of these expectations and role.
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Black women have long experienced a unique position in American society.
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They have been subject to the intersecting identities of being female and being Black. Each of those identities alone provides significant challenges, but to be Black and female adds an additional level of complexity and compounds the lived experience. In the best of times, there are challenges related to these group identities resulting from racist and sexist policies, practices, and actions. However, 2020 presented a new type of challenge. In March of 2020 it became widely known that the United States was in the midst of COVID 19, a global pandemic. Later in the spring of 2020, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor illuminated the global anti-Black racial pandemic.
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