Objectives:

African American women are disproportionately impacted by intimate partner violence (IPV)-related homicide. They reflect the second highest prevalence rates and experience the highest rates of murder resulting from IPV victimization. Although most survivors note that they have experienced rejection and anticipatory stigma as barriers to their help seeking, African American women additionally experience racism and racial discrimination as obstacles that may further preclude their help seeking. This systematic review highlights African American women’s experiences of rejection from providers and the effects that it may have upon their ability to secure urgent aid.

Method:

A dearth of literature examines the subtle ways that African American women survivors experience rejection resulting from the interlocking nature of race, class, and gender oppression. Fundamental to developing more culturally salient interventions is more fully understanding their help-seeking experiences. A systematic review was conducted to provide a critical examination of the literature to understand the intersections of IPV and help-seeking behavior among African American women. A total of 85 empirical studies were identified and 21 were included in the systematic review. The review illuminates both the formal and semiformal help-seeking pathways.

Results:

We recommend integrating anti-Blackness racist praxis, incorporating African American women’s ways of knowing and centralizing their needs in an effort to improve the health and well-being of this population.

Conclusions:

Eliminating barriers to more immediately accessing the domestic violence service provision system is key to enhance social work practice, policy, and research with African American female survivors of IPV.

中文翻译：

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夹在十字路口：非裔美国女性亲密伴侣暴力幸存者寻求帮助的交叉检查

目标：

与亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 相关的凶杀案对非裔美国妇女的影响尤为严重。它们反映了第二高的流行率，并经历了因 IPV 受害而导致的最高谋杀率。尽管大多数幸存者指出，她们在寻求帮助时经历过拒绝和预期的污名化，但非裔美国女性也经历过种族主义和种族歧视，这些障碍可能会进一步阻碍她们寻求帮助。这篇系统评价突出了非裔美国妇女被提供者拒绝的经历，以及这可能对她们获得紧急援助的能力产生的影响。

方法：

缺乏文献研究了非裔美国女性幸存者因种族、阶级和性别压迫的环环相扣而遭受拒绝的微妙方式。开发更具文化意义的干预措施的基础是更充分地了解他们的求助经历。进行了系统评价，以提供对文献的批判性检查，以了解 IPV 和非裔美国女性寻求帮助行为的交叉点。总共确定了 85 项实证研究，其中 21 项被纳入系统评价。审查阐明了正式和半正式的求助途径。

结果：

我们建议整合反黑人种族主义实践，结合非裔美国妇女了解和集中其需求的方式，以努力改善这一人群的健康和福祉。

结论：

消除更直接地获得家庭暴力服务提供系统的障碍是加强与非裔美国女性 IPV 幸存者的社会工作实践、政策和研究的关键。