| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Ghara, Alexandra
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| Author's Email Address |
aghara1@lsu.edu |
| URN |
etd-11162012-115803 |
| Title |
Black-Woman Identity Centrality and Interference: An Examination of Political Efficacy and Policy Attitudes |
| Degree |
Master of Arts (M.A.) |
| Department |
Political Science |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Sullivan, Jas |
Committee Chair |
| Bratton, Kathleen |
Committee Member |
| Parent, Wayne |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
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| Date of Defense |
2012-11-14 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
While much of the recent literature centers on a discussion of the “inner conflict” experienced by black women, political scientists have not measured this identity conflict or its political consequences. In this article I fill this gap in the literature by employing a black-woman identity interference scale (Settles 2006) to test whether black women experience particular difficulty aligning their racial and gender interests, and how identity conflict affects their political efficacy (internal political efficacy, external political efficacy, and group political efficacy) and policy attitudes. I find that while black women’s political efficacy is only affect by their race consciousness, their race and gender-related policy attitudes are heavily affected by their black-woman identity and identity interference.
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