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Many Black Adults Say Close Relationships Influence Their Views About Being a Black Man or Woman

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Many Black Adults Say Close Relationships Influence Their Views About Being a Black Man or Woman

Black Americans say they learn what it means to be a Black man or Black woman mainly from the people closest to them. Mothers play the largest role, followed by other personal connections, according to a Pew Research Center survey from June 2025.

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on how much people and media have influenced Black Americans’ views of their identities as Black men or Black women.

Pew Research Center does research to inform the public, the media and decision-makers. This analysis builds on previous work about the importance of identity and family to Black Americans. It also builds on the Center’s work studying Americans’ gender identity.

Learn more about Pew Research Center, our research on Black Americans and our race and ethnicity research.

We surveyed 4,271 U.S. Black adults from June 16 to 29, 2025, including 1,057 respondents from Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel and 3,214 from SSRS’s Opinion Panel. The survey is representative of the views of the full U.S. Black adult population, which includes U.S. adults who self-identify as Black, either alone or in combination with other races or a Hispanic identity.

In this survey, we asked Black adults an open-ended question about the most important thing they learned from the people who influenced them about being a Black man or Black woman. We chose quotations to highlight in this analysis for illustrative purposes; they don’t necessarily represent the majority opinion in any particular group or in the United States. Quotations have been edited for spelling, punctuation and style.


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