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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36710718/strong-black-women-linking-stereotypes-stress-and-overeating-among-a-sample-of-black-female-college-students
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Dawn Godbolt, Ijeoma Opara, Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha
This qualitative study examines how the "Strong Black Woman" (SBW) label can have potentially negative health effects for African American/Black women that contribute to eating disorders. This study addresses the gap in literature on racial disparities that are present in understanding eating disorders that contribute to obesity and obesityrelated issues. Through semi-structured individual interviews conducted with ( N = 11) Black female higher education students, participants were able to discuss how disorganized overeating patterns were associated with the emotional stress of being labeled a Strong Black Woman...
September 2022: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34305168/suicide-among-black-children-an-integrated-model-of-the-interpersonal-psychological-theory-of-suicide-and-intersectionality-theory-for-researchers-and-clinicians
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Ijeoma Opara, Maame Araba Assan, Kimberly Pierre, John F Gunn, Isha Metzger, Jahi Hamilton, Eileen Arugu
Recently, research has reported that the rates of suicide among Black children between the ages of 5 to 12-years-old are increasing as they are now more likely to commit suicide than White children. Yet, there are very few, if any, frameworks being used by researchers to explain the risks of suicide among Black children. Suicide research has overwhelmingly been focused on White youth thus leaving a critical gap in suicide research. This conceptual paper provides an integrated framework using the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide and Intersectionality theory, as a guide for researchers, clinicians, and practitioners to incorporate culturally appropriate techniques in their work as a way to prevent suicide among Black children...
September 2020: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31341331/examining-african-american-parent-daughter-hiv-risk-communication-using-a-black-feminist-ecological-lens-implications-for-intervention
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Ijeoma Opara
Using a framework of ecological systems theory and Black feminist theory, this article provides a conceptual exploration of barriers and facilitators to HIV risk communication between African American parents and daughters. African American female adolescents are disproportionately diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and are more likely to engage in sexually risky behaviors, which increases their risk of contracting HIV. Researchers have documented the importance of parental beliefs, knowledge, and communication about sexual and HIV risk as a protective factor in influencing safe sexual behavior in their daughters...
March 2018: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22834052/overturning-anti-miscegenation-laws-news-media-coverage-of-the-lovings-legal-case-against-the-state-of-virginia
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Jennifer Hoewe, Geri Alumit Zeldes
This study fills a gap in scholarship by exploring historical news coverage of interracial relationships. It examines coverage by The New York Times, Washington Post and Times-Herald, and Chicago Tribune of the progression of the landmark civil rights case of Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court overturned Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which prohibited marriage between any White and non-White person. An analysis of the frames and sources used in these publications' news stories about the case indicate all three publications' coverage favored the Lovings...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22834051/quantitative-evidence-of-the-continuing-significance-of-race-tableside-racism-in-full-service-restaurants
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Zachary W Brewster, Sarah Nell Rusche
Despite popular claims that racism and discrimination are no longer salient issues in contemporary society, members of racially underrepresented groups continue to experience disparate treatment in everyday public interactions. The context of full-service restaurants is one such public setting wherein African Americans, in particular, encounter racial prejudices and discriminatory treatment. To further understand the pervasiveness of such anti-Black attitudes and actions within the restaurant context, this article analyzes primary survey data derived from a community sample of servers (N = 200)...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22536626/young-black-and-connected-facebook-usage-among-african-american-college-students
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E Bun Lee
This article examines the extent and intensity of Facebook usage among African American college students and investigates their reasons for using Facebook. As expected, 98% of students in the survey had a Facebook account, and a large number of Facebook “friends.” Younger users spent significantly more time on Facebook than older ones. Our findings underscore the importance of cultural influence for African American online users. Displaying photographs and personal interests on Facebook signals racial identity among African American college students...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22536625/memories-in-photography-and-rebirth-toward-a-psychosocial-therapy-of-the-metaphysics-of-reincarnation-among-traditional-esan-people-of-southern-nigeria
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Isaac E Ukpokolo
The aim of this article is to show that beyond the need for the justification of the belief in reincarnation, beyond the quest for evidences to prove its reality or otherwise, the idea of rebirth has a pragmatic role in the cultures where it is held. Using the theorization of rebirth among the Esan people of southern Nigeria as a pilot, it asserts that the idea of rebirth plays a psychosocial, therapeutic function of comfort and healing for those traumatized by the death of a loved one. This, it shall be seen, is similar to, even more reliable than, the role of photography in preserving cherished memories...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22536624/the-new-new-racism-thesis-limited-government-values-and-race-conscious-policy-attitudes
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Jason Gainous
Some contend that Whites’ application of values to form opinions about race-conscious policy may constitute a subtle form of racism. Others challenge the new racism thesis, suggesting that racism and values are exclusive in their influence. Proponents of the thesis assert that many Whites’ attitudes about such policy are structured by a mix of racism and American individualism. The author suggests that an even more subtle form of racism may exist. Racism may actually be expressed in opposition to big government...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22530261/-it-just-kind-of-like-falls-in-your-hands-factors-that-influence-black-aunts-decisions-to-parent-their-nieces-and-nephews
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Regina Davis-Sowers
Using a modified grounded theory method and Black feminist theory, the author explored the factors that influence the decision-making processes of Black aunts parenting nieces and nephews. Analysis revealed six themes that facilitated beliefs in a lack of agency in the decision-making process: perceptions of a crisis, fulfillment of family obligations, personal identities, faith in God, gendered expectations, and the role of the Black aunt. Findings emphasized the impact of cultural traditions and gendered expectations on the meanings that Black aunts attach to familial roles and the influence of past and current racism on their definitions of the situation...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22457894/black-women-talk-about-workplace-stress-and-how-they-cope
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J Camille Hall, Joyce E Everett, Johnnie Hamilton-Mason
Black women face the same struggles as White women; however, they have to face issues of diversity on top of inequality. The purpose of this study was to explore work-related stressors that affect the lives of Black women and how they cope with them. Using an exploratory design with grounded-theory methods, five basic themes emerged that identify when racism and sexism are experienced as stressors for African American women in the workplace. The themes are: (1) being hired or promoted in the workplace, (2) defending one’s race and lack of mentorship, (3) shifting or code switching to overcome barriers to employment, (4) coping with racism and discrimination, and (5) being isolated and/or excluded...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22457892/the-disgrace-of-commodification-and-shameful-convenience-a-critical-race-critique-of-the-nba
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Rachel Alicia Griffin
This essay positions sport as a pedagogical social institution from which people learn about race, gender, power, and privilege. The National Basketball Association is examined closely with a critical race lens with regard to the commodification of Black masculinity. A critical race analysis reveals the sharp contradictions between the league’s progressive image as an “industry leader” of racial diversity (Lapchick, Bustamante, & Ruiz, 2007, p.1) and the actualization of league discourse, policy, and practice...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22454973/concurrent-validity-of-the-learning-and-study-strategies-inventory-lassi-a-study-of-african-american-precollege-students
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Lamont A Flowers, Brian K Bridges, James L Moore III
Concurrent validation procedures were employed, using a sample of African American precollege students, to determine the extent to which scale scores obtained from the first edition of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) were appropriate for diagnostic purposes. Data analysis revealed that 2 of the 10 LASSI scales (i.e., Anxiety and Test Strategies) significantly correlated with a measure of academic ability. These results suggested that scores obtained from these LASSI scales may provide valid assessments of African American precollege students’ academic aptitude...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22454972/venus-serena-and-the-inconspicuous-consumption-of-blackness-a-commentary-on-surveillance-race-talk-and-new-racism-s
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Delia D Douglas
As the U.S. population becomes more racially diverse and different groups move in to previously White-dominated spaces, new techniques of exclusion and marginalization are being employed in an effort to regulate the opportunities and progress available to racialized minority groups. In this article, the author argues that mass media’s preoccupation with the Williams sisters’ “on-court” play and “off-court” activities constitutes a form of surveillance that is used by Whites to identify, observe, and ultimately, limit the range of available representations of Venus and Serena Williams...
2012: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22171406/white-on-black-can-white-parents-teach-black-adoptive-children-how-to-understand-and-cope-with-racism
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Darron T Smith, Brenda G Juarez, Cardell K Jacobson
In this article, the authors examine White parents’ endeavors toward the racial enculturation and inculcation of their transracially adopted Black children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the authors identify and analyze themes across the specific race socialization strategies and practices White adoptive parents used to help their adopted Black children to develop a positive racial identity and learn how to effectively cope with issues of race and racism. The central aim of this article is to examine how these lessons about race help to connect family members to U...
2011: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22165423/getting-mad-but-ending-up-sad-the-mental-health-consequences-for-african-americans-using-anger-to-cope-with-racism
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Chavella T Pittman
Anger is a common reaction to stressful life events. However, little is known about anger’s use and efficacy as a coping strategy for racism. Is anger a coping strategy for racism that improves mental health? Or does anger operate in an opposing way, deteriorating mental health? The analyses for this research focused on a probability sample of African Americans who reported experiences of acute (n = 246) or chronic (n = 120) racial discrimination in a survey interview. General linear model results revealed that using anger to cope with racial discrimination negatively affected the general well-being and psychological distress of African Americans...
2011: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22165422/integrating-diversity-into-graduate-social-work-education-a-30-year-retrospective-view-by-msw-level-african-american-social-workers
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Stan L Bowie, J Camille Hall, Oliver J Johnson
The study surveyed a national sample of 100 African American master of social work graduates to retroactively assess perceived diversity content in Human Behavior courses before and after the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) established accreditation standards on diversity. Seventy-one percent of the respondents were females, the mean age was 45.8 years, and their graduation years ranged from 1958 to 2002. Most graduated from northeastern schools (34%), followed by midwestern (28%), southeastern (22%), northwestern (11%), and southwestern (5%) schools...
2011: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22073427/disordered-eating-in-african-american-and-caucasian-women-the-role-of-ethnic-identity
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Mary E Shuttlesworth, Deanne Zotter
The influential roles of culture and ethnic identity are frequently cited in developing disordered eating and body dissatisfaction, constituting both protective and risk factors. For African American women, strongly identifying with African American cultural beauty ideals may protect against disordered eating to lose weight, but may actually increase risk in development of disordered eating directed at weight gain, such as binge eating. This study compares African American and Caucasian women on disordered eating measures, positing that African American women show greater risk for binge eating due to the impact of ethnic identity on body dissatisfaction...
2011: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22073426/we-fall-down-the-african-american-experience-of-coping-with-the-homicide-of-a-loved-one
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Tanya L Sharpe, Javier Boyas
Rates of homicide among African Americans are much higher than those of other racial or ethnic groups. Research has demonstrated that homicide can be psychologically debilitating for surviving family members. Yet, exploring the experiences of homicide victims’ surviving loved ones has received little attention. This study examined the coping strategies of African American survivors of homicide. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 8 African American family members (ages 18-82) of homicide victims. Survivors were recruited from the Massachusetts Office of Victim Services and from homicide survivor support, school, and community groups throughout the New England area...
2011: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22013618/toward-a-caribbean-psychology-an-african-centered-approach
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Marcia Elizabeth Sutherland
Although the Americas and Caribbean region are purported to comprise different ethnic groups, this article’s focus is on people of African descent, who represent the largest ethnic group in many countries. The emphasis on people of African descent is related to their family structure, ethnic identity, cultural, psychohistorical, and contemporary psychosocial realities. This article discusses the limitations of Western psychology for theory, research, and applied work on people of African descent in the Americas and Caribbean region...
2011: Journal of Black Studies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/21910273/internalized-racism-s-association-with-african-american-male-youth-s-propensity-for-violence
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Wesley W Bryant
Youth violence in African American communities is still considered to be at epidemic proportions. The traditional risk factors for youth violence (i.e. delinquent friends, poverty, drug use, carrying a weapon etc.) do not account for the disproportionate overrepresentation of African American males. This study sought to better understand the propensity for violence among African American males ages 14-19 years (N=224) from four different programmatic sites: a Philadelphia high school, an African-centered charter high school, a youth detention facility, and a program that serves youth who are on probation or parole...
2011: Journal of Black Studies
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