Pub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1177/00957984241277058
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Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1177/00957984241273261
Monyae A. Kerney, Natalie Malone, Candice N. Hargons
This community-based participatory action research project led by the C.I.R.C.L.E. (Collective Infiltrating Research to Center Community, Liberation, and Embodiment) employed interpretative phenomenological analysis via eco-womxnist and Afro-Indigenous cosmological frameworks to examine the connection between gendered-racial identity and sacredness among 11 nonbinary Black womxn (NBBW) from the US. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews, we elicited participants’ responses to the following inquiry: Would you we describe being a nonbinary Black womxn as sacred? Why or why not? Data analysis resulted in two themes: (a) Origins of Sacred Powers and (b) Manifestations of Sacred Powers. Four subthemes informed Manifestations of Sacred Powers: Sight/Seers, Osmosis, Intergenerational Healing/Curse Breaking, and Immortality. Participants described these four interconnected manifestations of sacred powers in service of collective and individual liberation, rooted in African spirituality, ancestral power, and the gendered-racial identity. We conclude with implications for future research and clinical practice with NBBW regarding spiritual beliefs, practices, and identities.
{"title":"Blood and Bone: Ancestors, Power, and Sacred Identity Among Nonbinary Black Womxn","authors":"Monyae A. Kerney, Natalie Malone, Candice N. Hargons","doi":"10.1177/00957984241273261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984241273261","url":null,"abstract":"This community-based participatory action research project led by the C.I.R.C.L.E. (Collective Infiltrating Research to Center Community, Liberation, and Embodiment) employed interpretative phenomenological analysis via eco-womxnist and Afro-Indigenous cosmological frameworks to examine the connection between gendered-racial identity and sacredness among 11 nonbinary Black womxn (NBBW) from the US. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews, we elicited participants’ responses to the following inquiry: Would you we describe being a nonbinary Black womxn as sacred? Why or why not? Data analysis resulted in two themes: (a) Origins of Sacred Powers and (b) Manifestations of Sacred Powers. Four subthemes informed Manifestations of Sacred Powers: Sight/Seers, Osmosis, Intergenerational Healing/Curse Breaking, and Immortality. Participants described these four interconnected manifestations of sacred powers in service of collective and individual liberation, rooted in African spirituality, ancestral power, and the gendered-racial identity. We conclude with implications for future research and clinical practice with NBBW regarding spiritual beliefs, practices, and identities.","PeriodicalId":47588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Black Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1177/00957984241273304
Erica E. Coates, Rebecca de Heer, Alison McLeod, Kaela Farrise Beauvoir
Existing literature shows Black parents’ preference for using certain ethnic-racial socialization strategies (e.g., cultural socialization, egalitarianism) over others (e.g., preparation for bias, promotion of mistrust) with their young children. We sought to understand parents’ utilization of, and rationales for using, specific ethnic-racial socialization practices with their young children. We conducted focus groups with 26 Black parents of children ages five and under. Researchers generated the following themes through reflexive thematic analysis: reasons for cultural socialization, reasons for silence about race, reasons for preparation for bias, and reasons against promotion of mistrust with young children. Most parents emphasized young children’s racial awareness, self-confidence, feelings of equality, diverse friendships, positivity, and discernment of individual qualities as reasons for using cultural socialization and egalitarianism while avoiding using preparation for bias and promotion of mistrust. Whereas a few parents highlighted the importance of building children’s knowledge and providing comprehensive socialization as reasons for using preparation for bias with young children.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1177/00957984241269986
Erica E. Coates, Alison McLeod, Rebecca de Heer
When insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Black Americans were especially affected by the racial implications of the attack. Guided by research on vicarious institutional racism, researchers sought to understand how Black Americans reacted to and coped with racism-based stress following the Capitol insurrection. Six focus groups were held with Black Americans living in the DC metropolitan area at the time of the attack. The research team generated the following themes using reflexive thematic analysis: beliefs about White privilege, psychological trauma reactions, racial trauma symptoms, and adaptive coping strategies. Participants described experiencing anger, anxiety, desensitization, powerlessness, and distrust following perceptions of the criminal justice system’s disparate response to the January 6th riot in juxtaposition to Black Lives Matter protests. Participants discussed actions to combat institutional racism, namely, through neighborhood cohesion and ethnic-racial socialization practices. Findings on Black Americans’ emotional, cognitive, and adaptive reactions to the Capitol insurrection supported the racism-based traumatic stress model. Policy implications for reducing racial disparities in policing and supporting Black mental health are provided.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-10DOI: 10.1177/00957984241252004
William E. Cross
Around the turn of the 20th century, two sociologists, W. E. B. Du Bois, and E. Franklin Frazier, produced separate narratives depicting the legacy of slavery. Du Bois documented both the apparent negative consequences as well the way many ex-slaves achieved “uplift” within a short period of time, following Emancipation. Frazier claimed that exiting slavery the ex-slaves were a broken and damaged community in dire need of assimilation. In the 1930s, when Black psychologists entered the picture, their contribution tended to favor and extend Frazier’s work, resulting in a series of studies documenting racial self-hatred and damage to the self-concept. Inspired by contemporary biological and genealogical research showing trauma can become embedded in DNA structures and transmitted from one generation to another, Joy DeGruy theorized that most African Americans suffer from a Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome [PTSS]. Missing from DeGruy’s theorizing was mention of theory and research on the way trauma can result in positive psychological outcomes or Post-Traumatic Growth [PTG]. The current work attempts to summarize theory and research for both PTSS and PTG, as each may apply to an analysis of the psychological legacy of slavery.
大约在 20 世纪之交，两位社会学家 W. E. B. Du Bois 和 E. Franklin Frazier 分别撰写了描述奴隶制遗产的叙事文章。杜波依斯记录了奴隶制明显的负面影响，以及许多前奴隶在解放后短时间内实现 "提升 "的方式。弗雷泽声称，脱离奴隶制的前奴隶是一个破碎和受损的群体，急需同化。20 世纪 30 年代，当黑人心理学家进入这一领域时，他们的贡献倾向于支持和扩展弗雷泽的工作，从而产生了一系列记录种族自我憎恨和自我概念受损的研究。乔伊-德格鲁伊（Joy DeGruy）受到当代生物学和家谱学研究的启发，这些研究表明，创伤可以嵌入 DNA 结构并代代相传，因此她提出了大多数非裔美国人患有创伤后奴隶综合症（PTSS）的理论。德格鲁伊的理论中没有提到关于创伤如何导致积极心理结果或创伤后成长（PTG）的理论和研究。本著作试图总结创伤后综合症和创伤后成长的理论和研究，因为它们都可能适用于奴隶制心理遗产的分析。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-08DOI: 10.1177/00957984241250227
Evan Auguste, Tania Lodge, Niara Carrenard, Jana Robina Onwong’a, Ashley Zollicoffer, Dana Collins, Laneay London
In 2020, the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) drew attention to the history of racism in the United States on the creation and exacerbation of extant medical racial inequities to the detriment of Black individuals. Recognizing that solutions based solely in Western frameworks cannot fully address the mental health needs of Black individuals, ABPsi devoted collaborative efforts to develop culturally grounding healing responses for the unique experiences of race-based invisibility and trauma. Additionally, amid the pandemic, individuals of African-descent experienced various mass racial traumas, including a wave of widely publicized police violence. Beginning with COVID-19, these intersecting pandemics of racism elucidated the need for healing, particularly culturally grounding healing. In consultation with the Black Family Summit, ABPsi developed a pilot investigation, the Sawubona Healing Circle (SHC) initiative, which are culturally grounding healing circles to support Black first responders. Using an African-centered worldview, the circles recognize and validate the specific constellation of anti-Black traumas and stressors, equipping them with African-centered healing methods. This paper outlines the theory, development, implementation, and initial evaluation of the SHC intervention.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-26DOI: 10.1177/00957984241249360
Aerika Brittian Loyd, Marisha L. Humphries, Ceily Moore, Chastity L. Owens, Aremu M. Smith, Nia Williams
This literature review synthesizes research on Black American adolescents’ mental health published between 1990 and 2022 to identify prominent risk factors and highlight key protective factors for their mental health. Two research questions guided this review: (1) How did researchers examine mental health in Black American adolescents; and (2) What are the risk and protective factors that contribute to mental health outcomes among Black American adolescents? Across more than 30 years of investigation and over 300 published articles, researchers identified several prominent factors that pose risk to Black American adolescents’ mental health, including neighborhood conditions, violence exposure and victimization, racism and racial discrimination, and more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. However, research also elucidated factors that protect or directly promote Black American adolescents’ mental health, including family, racial and ethnic socialization, racial and ethnic identity, out-of-school time activities, interpersonal relationships, coping, sleep, and social-cognition. The authors conclude with future directions for research and implications for practice.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984241235502
Paris J. Ball, Edward D. Scott, A’zure Latimer, Martinque Jones, Seanna Leath
The present study examined how Black students’ pre-college beliefs and perceptions of mental health services influenced their help-seeking behaviors, both within and beyond college counseling services. Using semi-structured interview data and consensual qualitative research methods (CQR), we examined the experiences of 48 Black college women and men (ages 18–22) sampled from two universities. We identified the following four themes: (1) pre-college experiences shape mental health knowledge (MHK); (2) college adjustment challenges as a precursor to seeking treatment; (3) negative perceptions of college counseling services; and (4) campus community mental health support. Upon seeking counseling services, many students encountered a lack of diversity in counseling staff and cultural mistrust. Thus, they opted to seek mental health support in campus community spaces curated by Black student organizations and administrators. Overall, our findings suggest Black students engage in various alternative campus community spaces to support their mental health. We conclude by discussing the need for deliberate and specialized mental health support for Black students.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-05DOI: 10.1177/00957984231226286
Beverly J. Vandiver
{"title":"Fifty Years (1974–2024) of the Journal of Black Psychology: A Brief History and Reflection of Its Significance","authors":"Beverly J. Vandiver","doi":"10.1177/00957984231226286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984231226286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Black Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139383817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1177/00957984231223000
Kirby L. Wycoff, Alexis S. Dunbar, Jeanne Felter, Gareth Bohn, Felicia Foleno, Jessica Wilson, Joy Miller
This study used Critical Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to explore the lived experiences and phenomena of motherhood of five young Black women in Pennsylvania as they transition into motherhood. The core themes that emerged included systemic inequities, kinship, survival, and apprehension around the transition to motherhood. Additional analysis suggested that racism, structural oppression, childhood trauma, healthcare coercion, perinatal mental health distress, family chaos, poverty and economic insecurity, and birthing trauma were also relevant. These findings suggest that experiences from throughout the life course, including early trauma, influence the journey to motherhood and are intimately connected to mental health before, during, and after pregnancy. If clinicians and policy makers can better understand the lived experiences of Black women transitioning into motherhood, they can better engage in authentic, collaborative, patient-centered care.
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