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Dejah Tinney
Professor McDonald
Eng101-05
October 20 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Cooper, Deborrah. Emotional Abuse and the Emotionally Abusive Black Men. Surviving
Dating Making Smarter Choices in Your Search for Love. (2010, December).
http://survivingdating.com/emotional-abuse-and-the-emotionally-abusive-black-man
The author of this article stresses the importance of knowing the difference between
someone who says hurtful things once a month and someone who says hurtful things
daily resulting to emotional abuse. This article specifically speaks about the emotionally
abusive black man who verbally abuses the black woman to make himself seem more
superior and powerful. According to author Deborrah Cooper, black mens
communication with black woman is laden with critical, belittling words. Their sole goal
is to tear a confident, educated and successful black woman down. The black mans
ultimate victory is attained when they are in full control of the womans emotions and
have the ability to create sadness with only a few hurtful words.
The sources relevance to my topic is in the subject and title itself, Emotional Abuse and
the Emotionally Abusive Black Man. This article touches my subject on African
American woman enduring emotional abuse from the African American man.
Karakurt, Gunnur. Emotional abuse in intimate relationships: The role of gender and age.
Violence and Victims, vol. 28, number 5, (2013).

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This journal addresses the different types of emotional abuse including verbal assault,
dominance, control, isolation, ridicule, or the use of intimate knowledge for degradation.
Targeting the emotional and psychological well-being of the victim, often a precursor to
physical abuse. According to the journal, emotionally abused women can be lonelier than
physically abused women. The findings of the present study suggest that mens overall
risk of emotional abuse may be increasing while womens risk may be decreasing.
This sources relevance to my topic is the information about emotional abuse experienced
by men. Although it is not specifically geared towards the black man, the information
provided does answer one of my four questions.
Lacey, Krim K. The mental health of US Black women: the roles of social context and severe
intimate partner violence. BMJ Open, vol. 5, issue 2, (2015, October).
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/10/e008415.full
The objective of this website was to study and examine the contribution of the social and
severe physical intimate partner violence on the mental health of black woman. This
article provides research and data on the mental health of African American woman
affected by emotional abuse. According to the website, black woman experience intimate
partner violence at comparably higher rates than woman of other racial and ethnic groups.
Relative contributions of important neighborhood characteristics and other social factors
in the health of black woman were ascertained. Everyday discrimination was associated
with anxiety disorders and eating disorders.
The sources relevance to my topic is the health of African American woman and since
my topic is emotional abuse experienced by African American woman, this website

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provides data on just that. This website will help when data needs to be collected for my
project.
Nash, S. T. "Through Black Eyes: African American Women's Constructions of their
Experiences with Intimate Male Partner Violence." Violence Against Women, vol. 11, no.
11, (2005).
This book explores experiences from nine physically, emotionally, and sexually abused
African American wives. Showing how systems of inequalities, especially gender and
race, help foster less-explored constructions and reactions to intimate male partner
violence. Proving how racism stops some African American women from enlisting help
from resources that have historically guarded White women. According to the book,
African American women are known as domineering figures that require control which
continues to make them vulnerable to the abuse.
The sources relevance to my topic is the information provided about African American
women and their experiences with male partner violence. Although my topic is not about
physical abuse and violence specifically, I think that this is still a valuable source to
collect a few pieces of data from when completing projects on this topic.
White, Evelyn C. Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women Dealing with Physical and
Emotional Abuse. Seal Press, Seattle, Wash, 1985.
This book was written for African American and also Hispanic women dealing with both
physical and emotional abuse. The intention of the series as a whole and also this book is
to provide printed resources for women in violent relationships which may assist them in
the process of breaking free from physical, emotional and economic abuse. This book is
based upon the battered women's movement; by providing information to women and

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offering them an opportunity for self-assessment and reflection. By attributing

responsibility for the violence to the perpetrators, women will be able to seek help. In so
doing, bartered women are able to begin breaking the chains of violence which restrict
their lives, to realize that they are better off alone than in an abusive relationship.
The sources relevance to my topic is the information about African American women
experiencing emotional abuse. Some of the information provided answers one of my four
questions.