The Effects of Father Absence on African-American Male's Self-Esteem & Hypermasculinity

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
O'Shan Darius Gadsden ◽  
Ivory Toldson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Father Absence

Nuanced and Dissenting Voices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy J. Miller ◽  
Grace E. Cho
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Bakhtinian Theory

Chapter 4, “Nuanced and Dissenting Voices,” examines the nuances diverse parents brought to their understandings of childrearing and self-esteem. Framed within Bakhtinian theory, this chapter gives voice to African American parents, working-class parents, conservative Christian parents, and mothers, particularly women who had experienced low self-esteem. These parents endorsed self-esteem, but refracted the language of the self-esteem imaginary in ways that made sense, given their diverse values and ideological commitments, social positioning, and idiosyncratic experiences. This chapter also describes the perspectives of two groups from the larger study who challenged key elements of the dominant discourse: grandmothers of Centerville children who raised their children in an earlier era, and Taiwanese parents who grew up in a different cultural context but were temporarily residing and raising their children in Centerville. These two groups of dissenters underscore again the book’s theme that self-esteem is rooted in time and place.

Familial and ecological correlates of self-esteem in African American children

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (68) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Walker ◽  
Eric Taylor ◽  
Angela McElroy ◽  
Di-Ann Phillip ◽  
Melvin N. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Ecological Correlates ◽  
American Children

Promoting Cultural Responsiveness and Closing the Achievement Gap with Standards Blending

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0901200
Author(s):  
Rita Schellenberg ◽  
Timothy Grothaus
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Achievement Gap ◽  
School Counseling ◽  
African American Males ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Cultural Responsiveness ◽  
Closing The Achievement Gap ◽  
Content Areas

In this article, standards blending–-the integration of core academic and school counseling standards–-is demonstrated as a culturally responsive strategy to assist in closing the achievement gap for a group of third-grade African American males. The small-group intervention described resulted in knowledge gains in both the school counseling and academic curriculum content areas. All participants also reported experiencing increased self-esteem.

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