Black-oriented media may offer Black women an opportunity to produce and consume empowering messages that challenge heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs, but they may also foster their endorsement. Drawn by this paradox, we surveyed 597 undergraduate and graduate Black women aged 18 to 30 years to examine exposure to Black-oriented media and their association with the acceptance of heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs. Correlation and regression analyses showed that reading more Black magazines was associated with increased acceptance of heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs. Although it has been argued that media depictions of sexually agentic and empowered Black women may help disrupt and subvert the hegemonic nature of heteropatriarchal discourses in society, our findings suggest that some Black-oriented media may instead be associated with endorsing restrictive, scripted gender norms for intraracial romantic relationships.

面向黑人的媒体可能会为黑人女性提供一个机会来制作和消费挑战异族父权关系信念的赋权信息，但它们也可能会促进他们的认可。受这个悖论的影响，我们调查了 597 名 18 至 30 岁的本科和研究生黑人女性，以检查接触以黑人为导向的媒体及其与接受异父权关系信念的关系。相关性和回归分析表明，阅读更多黑人杂志与异族父权关系信念的接受度增加有关。尽管有人认为媒体对性行为和赋权黑人女性的描述可能有助于扰乱和颠覆社会中异父权制话语的霸权性质，