Annotated Bibliography of Recent Research on Sexual Assaults on Black Women

SOCIAL SCIENCE: Amar, Angela Frederick. “African-American College Women’s Perceptions of Resources and Barriers When Reporting Forced Sex.” The Journal of the National Black Nurses Association 19.2 (2008) 35–41. Through her research, Amar found that “African-American and White women experience violence at equal rates except in the 2024 age range where African-American women experience greater violence” (36). Given this information, she conducted a field study at an unnamed historically African-American college in the south. Arguing that little research has been done specifically focusing on female African-American college-aged sexual assault victims, Amar seeks to fill this void by discussing specific barriers this group of women face in reporting rape and offering solutions to this problem. She points to personal anxiety, negative treatment of the victim, lack of accessibility to campus health professionals, lack of health insurance, and relationship to the offender as harmful barriers African-American college women face in reporting rape or sexual assault.