Finding the Real Kamala Harris: Black Women, Politics, and Stereotypes

In this episode, the hosts discuss how Black women face dual challenges at the intersection of race and gender bias in our society, particularly when they seek positions of power and influence.

In politics, the opponent often foregoes the complexity of actual issues in favor of the simplicity of caricatures, buzz-words, or one-dimensional labels.

Different language used for men and women

https://hbr.org/2018/05/the-different-words-we-use-to-describe-male-and-female-leaders

Women in the modern Civil Rights Movement

https://nmaahc.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/black_women_civil_rights_movement_5.pdf

Michelle Obama labeled angry Black woman

https://time.com/4606458/michelle-obama-angry-black-woman-label-oprah/

Ida B. Wells Biography

https://www.biography.com/activist/ida-b-wells

Overcoming the angry Black woman stereotype

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2019/05/31/overcoming-the-angry-black-woman-stereotype/#586d83541fce

This short segment talks about the 19th Amendment being a white project. Black women were disadvantaged even as the country was celebrating a victory for democracy. 

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/26/904730251/yes-women-could-vote-after-the-19th-amendment-but-not-all-women-or-men

Barbara Jordan Nixon Impeachment speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqVBclJVco

Shirley Chisholm Biographies:

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unbought-and-unbossed-when-black-woman-ran-for-the-white-house-180958699/

Kamala Harris’ voting record

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678