Scholarship and Empowerment in the Age of the Video Vixen: Promoting Black Adolescent Females’ Academic Success

dc.contributor.advisorParks, Sheri
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-01T16:39:27Z
dc.date.available2010-09-01T16:39:27Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThroughout American history, popular culture and some academic disciplines have created limited characterizations of low income, urban, Black adolescent females as hypersexual vixens who are at risk for early sexual activity and low academic achievement. The promulgation of these negative sexual myths may cause Black adolescent females to internalize these myths and perform sexually explicit roles at an early age; consequently increasing their chances of low academic achievement. The purpose of the future ethnographic/self ethnographic study is to explore the ways that cultural framers such as: families (with emphasis on Black mothers) and the media influence Black adolescent females’ motivation to obtain academic success, and resist or accept negative sexual myths. The researcher will use the framing theory and expectancy value theory to explore these relationships. The study will observe Black adolescent females that attend public middle schools in urban areas within the Baltimore/ Washington, D.C metropolitan area. The researcher will consider how racial, gender, and class socialization may frame the adolescents’ life experiences and the methods that they use to construct their identities, value systems, and resistance strategies to combat negative sexual myths.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThe University of Maryland McNair Scholars Undergraduate Research Journal, 2, (2010): 269-286.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10728
dc.relation.isAvailableAtRonald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Degree Program
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subjectAfrican Americanen_US
dc.subjectSexualityen_US
dc.titleScholarship and Empowerment in the Age of the Video Vixen: Promoting Black Adolescent Females’ Academic Successen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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