Safer sexual practices among African American women: intersectional socialisation and sexual assertiveness.

Scholars have posited that childhood socialisation experiences may play a key role in influencing behaviours and attitudes that contribute to the acquisition of HIV. This study examined the links between past ethnic-racial and gender socialisation, sexual assertiveness and the safe sexual practices of African American college women utilising a cluster analytic approach. After identifying separate racial-gender and ethnic-gender socialisation profiles, results indicated that ethnic-gender socialisation cluster profiles were directly associated with sexual assertiveness and safer sex behaviour.

African American women's safer sexual practices: the influence of ethnic-racial socialisation and body esteem.

African American women are disproportionately at risk for sexually transmitted infections (e.g., HIV and gonorrhoea).

Breaking the chains: examining the endorsement of modern Jezebel images and racial-ethnic esteem among African American women.

The historical image of the Black Jezebel - a hypersexual, seductive and manipulative slave woman - has been one of the most pervasive and evolving images influencing the sexual socialization and perceptions of African American women today. This preliminary study examined generational differences in the endorsement of modern depictions of the Jezebel, as well as the relationship between racial-ethnic esteem and endorsement of this sexualised image. A total of 249 African American women completed an online, self-report questionnaire assessing study variables.