Title: Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study | Georgetown Law
Headings: Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study
Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study
Findings include:
Disciplinary Disparities

Content: Black girls routinely experience adultification bias. Adultification is linked to harsher treatment and higher standards for  black girls in school. Negative stereotypes of black women as angry, aggressive and  hypersexualized are projected onto black girls. Adults attempt to change black girls’ behavior to be more passive. Adultification bias can lead educators and other authorities to treat black girls in developmentally inappropriate ways. Factors that contribute to adultification bias include racism, sexism, and poverty. Adults have less empathy for black girls than their white peers. “ [T]o society, we’re not innocent. And white girls are always innocent,” said a participant in one of the focus groups (ages 17-23). The report and a new animated video (see below) on adultification bias share a sampling of quotes from focus group participants across the various findings.