Racism and Sexuality: How Women of Color Learn about Sex and the Body

Medrano, Jay

dc.contributor.advisor	Seale, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author	Medrano, Jay
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-07T13:11:06Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-07T13:11:06Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1824
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of Racism and Sexuality: How Women of Color Learn about Sex and the Body is to explore how women and female-assigned people of color are taught about sexuality and sex-negativity through the lens of race. Sex negativity is described as the perception of sex being dangerous, harmful, or deviant; those who grow up in sex-negative cycles believe sex and therefore their body is shameful. Participants were nine women and female-assigned people of color aged 18-20 interviewed through Zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions. The results showed a triple jeopardy of youth, race, and gender as significant factors in how participants viewed body image and sexuality. Participants resorted to self-regulation as a way to combat certain perceptions and sex-negative roles in their daily lives as a result of their intersecting identities.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	SUNY Research Foundation	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Student research	en_US
dc.title	Racism and Sexuality: How Women of Color Learn about Sex and the Body	en_US
dc.type	Presentation	en_US
dc.description.version	VoR	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2021-07-07T13:11:06Z
dc.description.institution	SUNY Oneonta	en_US
dc.description.department	Sociology	en_US
dc.description.degreelevel	N/A	en_US