Replication Data for: Race, Gender, and Public Opinion toward Black Female Political Elites

This study examines the extent to which Black female political elites face a unique combination of disadvantages in the American political arena on account of their dual race-gender identity. More precisely, this project considers whether respondents have more negative perceptions of Black female political elites relative to White female, White male, and Black male political elites. Using Crenshaw’s 1989 framework of intersectionality, hypotheses about the interactive (or “intersectional”) disadvantages faced by Black female political elites are tested using (1) a 1000-respondent public opinion survey fielded with Cloud Research (Prime Panels), and (2) a 1000-respondent survey experiment fielded with Dynata. This project offers one of the first empirical tests of intersectional claims common in the literature. Results suggest a complex story: there are nuanced circumstances under which Black female politicians suffer penalties among American respondents as a consequence of both race and gender