 According to scholars, when African-American women are harassed on the street, the experience evokes a long history of disrespect, degradation, and inhumane sexual mistreatment to which Black women have been subjected over the years.Black women may, in fact, suffer more intensely from street harassment than other women, because it resonates with remnants of a slave-era mentality.Similarly, for women of color who have been historically objectified, exoticized, deemed sexually available, and commodified, harassers feel they are free to access their physical bodies.