Black Women’s Agenda Setting in the Maryland State Legislature

Brown, Nadia E.; Banks, Kira Hudson

doi:10.1007/s12111-013-9260-7

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“…While intersectionality scholars have long debated the methodological tenets of how to best measure the concept (Brown and Hudson Banks, 2013;Garcia Bedolla and Scola, 2006;Hancock 2007 ;Jordan-Zachery 2007 ;Orey et al, 2006 ), this study contributes to the small but growing empirical studies that utilize an intersectional analysis using quantitative data. Indeed, this study illustrates that disaggregating by race/ethnicity and gender allows for scholars to uncover key differences within groups when using large databases.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Minta

Brown²

2014

Du Bois Rev.

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Despite claims by normative theorists that gender diversity in Congress leads to better representation of women’s interests, the results of empirical studies have been largely mixed. While some scholars have found positive effects of gender diversity, others have found very little impact. We argue that it is not the presence of White and minority women alone that makes political institutions more responsive to women’s issues, but rather it is the organizational presence of minority men along with minority women who make similar claims for inclusion, power, and organizational formation to achieve those goals that matters. We examine to what extent gender and racial diversity have led to more attention to issues that directly and indirectly impact women. Using congressional hearings data from 1951–2004, we find that the increased presence of minority men and women legislators in the House, but less so in the Senate, is responsible for keeping women’s interests on the congressional agenda. We demonstrate how an intersectional and additive approach can add both theoretical and empirical value to the study of political representation by demonstrating the impact of women and minorities in Congress.

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2014

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“…The women featured in this article are also trailblazers—often the first Black woman or lesbian woman to be elected mayor. The responses of Black women politicians, in particular, might be unique given their hypervisibility, progressiveness, and prioritization of “intersectionally marginalized populations” (Brown and Banks 2014). Thus, it is incumbent on future research to determine whether other women of color, White women, and conservative women leaders across contexts have also responded in proactive, transparent, evidence-based, and socially minded ways or whether these women mayors are truly anomalies.…”

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Local Responses to a Global Pandemic: Women Mayors Lead the Way

Funk

2020

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Even before the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, was declared a pandemic, prominent women mayors in the United States enacted proactive and innovative policies to prevent local outbreaks and soften the social and economic repercussions. Several Black women mayors, in particular, have led the way in local pandemic response efforts. This article identifies four major features of these and other women mayors’ early responses. First, women mayors demonstrated proactive leadership even when faced with pushback. Second, these mayors advocated for transparent and evidence-based decision-making at all levels of government. Third, they enacted measures to protect vulnerable communities and reduce disparities. Fourth, they actively shared advice on best practices and lessons learned, and provided examples for other local leaders to follow. The article concludes by situating these responses in the larger research on gender and leadership and asks whether these women's actions are unique or part of a systematic trend of gendered responses to the pandemic.

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“…Black women's support of Black women candidates may be due to prioritizing racial interests and identities over gendered interests and identities (Gay and Tate 1998; Mansbridge and Tate 1992). However, other scholarship has indicated that Black women cannot separate or rank their racial and gendered identities, and they instead form a new identity that represents the interlocking of their parts (Brown and Banks 2013; Orey et al 2006; Simien 2006). Other work shows that Black women candidates may be harmed by perceptions of Black women as “assertive” (Hicks 2017, 21).…”

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Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates

Lemi

Brown

2019

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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Research on candidate evaluation has delved into questions of how voters evaluate women candidates, Black male candidates, as well as how candidates’ appearances may condition electoral opportunities. Combined, this scholarship has tended to focus on how race, gender, and skin tone privilege or undermine evaluations of Black male or White women candidates. We intervene to study Black women candidates and draw on research on colorism and Black women's hairstyles and ask: How does variation in skin tone and hairstyle affect Black voter evaluations of Black women candidates? We develop and test two hypotheses: the empowerment hypothesis and the internal discrimination hypothesis. We mostly find support for the latter. Importantly, we find that the interaction of dark skin and non-straight hair has mostly negative effects on Black men and women's trait evaluations, but a positive effect on Black women's willingness to vote for the candidate. Furthermore, this research shows that hair texture is an important aspect of responses to Black women candidates—hair is not just hair for Black women candidates. This research shows that understanding the effects of candidate appearance on voter behavior necessitates considering the intersection of racial and gender phenotypes.

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Black Women’s Agenda Setting in the Maryland State Legislature

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

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Local Responses to a Global Pandemic: Women Mayors Lead the Way

Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates

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