Lost in the categorical shuffle: Evidence for the social non-prototypicality of Black women

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 370-376

  Thomas, Erin L ^a   Dovidio, John F ^a   West, Tessa V ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; Categorization; Intersectionality; Social prototypicality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904726127     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035096     Document Type: Article

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