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To Be Young, Defective, and Black: Adultification Bias, Maternal Morbidity, and Black Femininity as Defective Adulthood

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: For Black women, Anura Bracey writes, childhood never fully exists—and yet adulthood never truly begins. Instead, Anura coins the phrase “deficient adulthood” to describe Black girls’ and women’s experiences throughout their lifetime. Black girls and women, she tells us, “occupy a paradoxical space where they are simultaneously viewed as too strong and too weak, too adult and too childlike.”

Source: Stanford Digital Repository

DOI: 10.25740/yf068df0730

Authors: Bracey, Anura, Kassner, Nora

Language: English

Topic: Feminist Theory and Gender Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7090935343

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