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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Black Family"”.
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The Premature Loss of the Black Male and Its Implications on the Black Family System and Community: A Proposed 12-Step Grief Support Group Model
<p>Premature deaths, ages 15–44, and loss of Black males through homicide, along with suicide and systemic violence, and incarceration, create lifelong emotional and psychological trauma for those who remain behind in Black family settings and society. U.S. social injustices against Black …
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Religious Commitment as a Correlate of Mental Health and Life Satisfaction Among Black American Families
… has played a central role in the lives of Blacks, and since previous research has identified positive correlations between some religious attributes and individual well-being, it would seem that religious Black families would enjoy a greater degree of health.</p> <p>A religious commitment …
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Living the differences: ethnicity, gender and social work
This thesis concerns the entry of black women into local authority social service departments as qualified social workers in the 1980s. It argues that this entry needs to be understood in the context of a moment of racial formation and social regulation in which specific black populations were …
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Reimagining Parent and Family Engagement for African American Children and their Families
… gaps and mental health disparities for Black children have been written about extensively and still persist. Closure of these gaps have moved at a glacial pace. These disparities have significant implications for one's sense of agency. Black family voice has remained underutilized. …
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Multivariate analysis of equity in public elementary and secondary school finance
… in Achievement Test Scores was accounted for by Black Family Structure, Fiscal Capacity, Economic Composition of a District Population, and Community Type characteristics.
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Black parents’ perceptions of involvement in their children’s schooling during middle childhood within the U.S. Virgin Islands
… study was to phenomenologically explore Black parents’ perceptions of involvement in their children’s schooling within middle childhood in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Billingsley’s Black family model was used to guide this study. The two research questions were (1) How do Black parents with …
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Selling the Mechanized Household to Black America: Race and Gender in Domestic Technology Advertising, 1945-1980
… Ebony magazine and current literature about the black American experience to identify the impact of including race in the evaluation of household technology advertising in twentieth century America. In particular, this thesis addresses Mrs. Consumer's extensibility across race; Ebony's household …
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Ego identity development in black college students: the effects of self-esteem, ethnic identity and family environment
… psychosocial theory and Hill’s paradigm of Black family strengths. Ego identity was measured by the Revised Version of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status, an instrument based on the theoretical constructs of Erikson. Family strengths were measured by the Family Environment …
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Reading habits and interests of parents and their influence on the reading habits and interests of their children in Umlazi Township
… in Umlazi area. An overview of the literature on Black family life and its possible influence on reading, pointed to various factors which could have a negative influence on Black pupils' reading, for example, poor home conditions, lack of parent models, oral culture and difficulties with regard …
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Pastoral care and counselling in the black churches in Britain : with special reference to those in Leeds
… aspects of pastoral care and counselling in the black churches in Britain. The first aspect of caring that has been explored is acceptance. When people are genuinely accepted by others there is the possibility for personal growth and development to take place. Such acceptance can be therapeutic. …
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DOIN’ IT FOR THE CULTURE: DEFINING BLACKNESS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY ON BLACK TWITTER
… More specifically, its purpose is to examine how Black Twitter users interact on Twitter through the portals of three trending hashtags from 2015: #BlackExperience, #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, and #AskRachel. The hashtags #BlackExperience and #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies sparked …
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A Developmental Study on the Kinetic Family Drawing for a Nonclinic, Black-Child Population in the Midwestern Region of the United States
… Valid psychological instruments for use with Black children are scarce. This study sought to validate the Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) as a useful tool for gathering information about Black children and their families, and to obtain normative and developmental data for this population.</p> …
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The Black Community in Waco, Texas : a study of place, family, and work, 1880-1900.
"The Black Community in Waco, Texas: A Study of Place, Family, and Work, 1880-1900," is a-local study which analyzes residential patterns, family structures, and occupational status of the city's black population in the late nineteenth century. Comparisons between 1880 and 1900 are made concerning …
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An Excavation of Margaret and Jerry Morgan: How The Architecture of Black Liminal Spaces Shaped Antebellum Conflict between Maryland and Pennsylvania
… and their six children were living as a free Black family in rural Pennsylvania, one of a growing number of such families in a part of the state that bordered Maryland. Suddenly, their lives were violently disrupted in 1837 when a group of men from Maryland, led by Edward Prigg, entered into …
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A history of Black women faculty at Michigan State University, 1968 - 2009
… examines the coping mechanisms employed by some Black female faculty who encountered institutional racism and sexism on multiple levels at MSU. Finally, I highlight the careers and intellectual women who broke through racial, sexual, and class barriers to become successful scholars in the …
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Outsider Within: Examining Homosexuality and the Black Church on YouTube
… of many private institutions including the Black church, making it part of public discourse. </p><p>One of the places this dialogue can be found is YouTube. Serving as a platform rather than just a destination for social engagement, YouTube allows people to give life to their own conceptions …
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The High Maintenance Black Girl: Black Female College Students’ Experiences with Intraracial Stereotypes
… documented interracial stereotypes faced by Black individuals, this study delved into the lesser-explored realm of stereotypes emanating from within the Black community itself. This dissertation explored the experiences of Black female college students in predominantly white educational …
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From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles
… of Los Angeles members confronted working in a Black Arts Movement aesthetic environment and modality while also working in the mainstream media and entertainment industry. The Black Arts Movement offered a corrective to the representations of African Americans in United States mainstream media, …
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(Re)inscribing Meaning: An Examination of the Effective Approaches, Adaptations and Improvisational Elements in Closing the Excellence Gap for Black Students
… in looking at the low performance levels of Black students today, the question becomes, how do the descendants of those who created writing, mathematics, and science; and then in the face of episodic disruptions laid their lives on the line to read, write, and built public schools, Sabbath …