Details about Dr. West’s award-winning book, Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue are available on her Book page. Below are selected journal articles and book chapters. Please see Dr. West’s Curriculum Vitae for a complete list of her publications.
West, C. M. (in press). Still on the Auction Block: The (S)exploitation of Black Adolescent Girls in Rap(e) Music and Hip Hop Culture. In S. Olfman (Ed.) Sexualization of Childhood. Praeger Press.
West, C. M. (in press). Resistance as Recovery: How Feminism Helped Me to Win a Sexual Harassment Grievance. In A. White (Ed.), Consciously living feminism: Feminist theory and practice among African American women and men.
West, C. M. (2008). Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire, and their Homegirls: Developing an “oppositional gaze” toward the images of Black women. In J. Chrisler, C. Golden, & P. Rozee (Eds.), Lectures on the psychology of women (4th Ed. pp. 286-299). New York: McGraw Hill.
West, C. M. (2008). “A thin line between love and hate?” Black men as victims and perpetrators of dating violence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 16, 238-257.
West, C. M. (October, 2006). Sexual violence in the lives of African American women: Risk, response, and resilience. Harrisburg, PA: VAWnet, a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence/Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Retrieved from http://www.vawnet.org
West, C. M. (2005). Violence in ethnically diverse families: The “political gag order” has been lifted. In N. Sokoloff (Ed.), Domestic violence at the margins: A reader at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender (pp. 157-173). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
West, C. M. (2005). Violence. In D. C. Hine (Ed.), Black Women in America: An historical encyclopedia (pp. 281-287). Oxford University Press.
West, C. M. (2004). Black women and intimate partner violence: New directions for research. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 19 (12), 1487-1493.
West, C. M. (2003). “Feminism is a Black Thing?”: Feminist Contributions to Black Family Life. In Lee A. Daniels (Ed.), The State of Black America: The Black Family Building on its Resilience (pp. 13-27). National Urban League: New York.
West, C. M. (2002). Battered, Black, and blue: An overview of violence in the lives of Black women. In C. M. West (Ed.), Violence in the lives of Black women: Battered, black, and blue (pp. 5-27). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press.
West, C. M. (2002). “I find myself at therapy’s doorstep”: Summary and suggested readings on violence in the lives of Black women. In C. M. West (Ed.), Violence in the lives of Black women: Battered, black, and blue (pp. 193-201). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press.
West, C. M. (2002). Black battered women: New directions for research and Black feminist theory. In L. H. Collins, M. Dunlap, & J. Chrisler (Eds.), Charting a new course for feminist psychology (pp. 220-233). Boston, MA: McGraw Hill.
West, C. M., Williams, L. M., & Siegel, J. (2000). Adult sexual revictimization among Black women sexually abused in childhood: A prospective examination of serious consequences of abuse. Child Maltreatment, 5, 49-57.
West, C. M., & Rose, S. M. (2000). Dating aggression among low income African American youth: An examination of gender differences and antagonistic beliefs. Violence Against Women, 5, 470-494.
West, C. M., Kaufman Kantor, G., & Jasinski, J. L. (1998). Sociodemographic predictors and cultural barriers to help-seeking behavior by Latinas and Anglo American battered women. Violence and Victims, 13, 361-375.
West, C. M. (1995). Mammy, Sapphire, and Jezebel: Historical images of Black women and their implications for psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 32, 458-466
Lifting the “political gag order”: Breaking the silence around partner violence in ethnic minority families. In J. L. Jasinski & L. M. Williams (Eds.), Partner violence: A comprehensive review of 20 years of research (pp. 184-209). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage