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Content Inside: ORIGINAL ARTICLE The Effects of Images of African American Women in Hip Hop on Early Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Relationships Dionne P. Stephens & April L. Few Published online: 2 February 2007 # Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2007 Abstract This qualitative study was designed to identify African American early adolescents’ subjective meanings of African American women’s sexuality through an examination of Stephens & Phillips (2003) sexual images—the Diva, Gold Digger, Freak, Dyke, Gangster Bitch, Sister Savior, Earth Mother, and Baby Mama. These eight sexual images both inform and reflect beliefs about African American women’s physical attractiveness. Interpersonal relationship decision making processes also were influenced by these conceptual frameworks of African American women’s sexuality. Findings from this study are important given the tendency of previous researchers to ignore race and intra- ethnic variations in studies of beliefs about attitudes toward sexuality. Keywords African American . Adolescents . Images . Sexuality Although researchers have greatly benefited from under- standing how sexual images affect heterosexual European American adolescents (e.g., Alksnis, Desmarais, & Wood, 1996; Rose & Frieze, 1989, 1993) and gay men and lesbians (e.g., Klinkenberg & Rose, 1994) the research on African Americans’ sexual images and their relationship to physical attractiveness and relationship patterns is limited. Psychologists and family scientists have traditionally examined African American female adolescents’ sexual outcome behaviors, such as unplanned pregnancy, early sexual onset, or sexually transmitted disease acquisition, rather than the meanings of sexuality that guide these behaviors (East, 1998; Gibbs, 1998; McLoyd, 1998; Rome, Rybicki, & Durant, 1998; Smith, 1997). Thus, negative developmental outcomes have been the dominant foci of studies ...
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