Intersectional Motherhood and Candidate Evaluations in the United States
Jennie Sweet-Cushman,
Nichole M. Bauer
Abstract:In the United States, emphasizing their families and talking about parenthood can be a potent strategy for political candidates as voters use information about a candidate’s family life to make assessments of the candidate’s personal attributes and issue competencies. We nonetheless know little about how a candidate’s race affects these assessments. We thus consider how Black women use and benefit from politicizing motherhood, and we argue that the unique intersectional identities of Black women shaped jointly… Show more
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