Discuss The Role Of Domestic Violence In African American Women

Introduction: Research shows that race plays a major role in domestic violence and the women who are at higher risk of being victims. African American women who suffer from economic factors are more vulnerable to domestic violence than White American women. Domestic Violence isn't just hitting, or fighting, or an occasional mean argument. It's a chronic abuse of power. This abuse is a serious reality for Black women. In 2011, the most recent year for which such data is available, black females were murdered by males at a rate of 2.61 per 100,000 in single victim/single offender incidents. For white women, the rate was 0.99 per 100,000.

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The authors present the rates of domestic violence for both African Americans and whites differ by their type of community and the correlation between race and domestic violence that are greatly reduced or disappears altogether when whites are compared to African Americans in the same way where they are both “affected” in the economy. This relates to our research question as the level of risk factors for domestic violence appear to happen similarly for both African Americans and whites however, not as substantially in the white economy. This is important to showing in the real world, many more African Americans live in disadvantaged situations than whites. This information might serve as a world wide discussion to the relationship between race and domestic
Rumptz. "Adjustment and Needs of African-American Women Who Utilized a Domestic Violence Shelter." Springer Publishing Company 9 (1994): 275-86. Web. The authors, sponsored by Michigan State University, presents research on African American women who goes into a domestic violence shelter. The article explores the experiences of 60 women from 6 months prior to entering a shelter through a 10-week program. This article shows that African-American battered women who use domestic violence shelters faced many of obstacles. This relates to our research question as we are taught that the African American economic context has an impact on their domestic situations. Most of the African American women been severely abused, were likely to be living below the poverty line, were unemployed, and were in need of numerous resources. This is important as it shows the difference between the lives, overall, between blacks and whites. This information might serve well not only to help woman who suffered from abuse but to help black women have an economic change as violence is one result from their