Sense of Community, Neighborhood Racial Composition and Well-being among Black Women

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda L. White-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Racial Composition ◽  
Neighborhood Racial Composition

Neighborhood Racial Composition and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination: Evidence From the Black Women's Health Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew O. Hunt ◽  
Lauren A. Wise ◽  
Marie-Claude Jipguep ◽  
Yvette C. Cozier ◽  
Lynn Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Racial Composition ◽  
Ethnic Density ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Neighborhood Racial Composition

Little is known about the effects of social context or “place” factors (e.g., characteristics of local populations) on African Americans' perceptions and experiences of racism. Using data from 42,445 U.S. black women collected during the 1997 follow-up wave of the Black Women's Health Study, we investigated the association between neighborhood racial composition (“percent black” at the block-group level in 2000 Census data) and perceptions of racial discrimination. Perceived racial discrimination was measured using self-reports of the frequency of discrimination in “everyday” settings (e.g., being treated as if you are dishonest) and “lifetime” occurrences of discrimination on the job, in housing, and by the police. There was a linear inverse relationship between neighborhood percent black and perceived discrimination, i.e., higher percent black was associated with lower levels of discrimination. Our results support the conclusions that, relative to contexts in which blacks are a small minority, more evenly-mixed (i.e., integrated) contexts result in lower levels of discrimination (contact hypothesis), and mostly black contexts evidence the lowest levels of discrimination (ethnic density hypothesis).

“Pretty hurts”: Acceptance of hegemonic feminine beauty ideals and reduced sexual well-being among Black women

Body Image ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
Lanice R. Avery ◽  
Alexis G. Stanton ◽  
L. Monique Ward ◽  
Elizabeth R. Cole ◽  
Sarah L. Trinh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Feminine Beauty ◽  
Beauty Ideals

scholarly journals Black women and COVID-19: The need for targeted mental health research and practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 247-255
Author(s):  
Quenette L Walton ◽  
Rosalyn Denise Campbell ◽  
Joan M Blakey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Women’S Mental Health ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Women's Mental Health ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Health And Well Being

COVID-19 has significantly impacted a substantial number of Black Americans. Black women, in particular, are facing challenges financially, physically, and mentally during this unprecedented time. Between serving as frontline workers, being concerned about contracting the virus, contributing to their families financially, and worrying about their loved ones’ health, Black women are experiencing great strain on their mental health and well-being. These stressors illustrate the need for social work researchers and practitioners to address Black women’s mental health. This paper presents our reflections, experiences, and response to COVID-19 as Black women and scholars. Guided by our reflections and personal experiences, we put forth suggestions and reflexive thoughts for social work researchers and practitioners to prioritize Black women’s mental health during and after these unprecedented times.

The Difference Diwali Makes: Understanding the Contribution of a Cultural Event to Subjective Well-Being for Ethnic Minority Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Walters ◽  
Thamarai Selvi Venkatachalam
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Point Of Intersection

This research provides a nuanced understanding of the contribution of cultural events to subjective well-being for ethnic minority migrant communities, who often face significant challenges in their new lives. The paper investigates how the intersection of sense of community and subjective well-being function in this context. It focuses on the Hindu celebration of Diwali/Deepavali (the Festival of Lights) in two New Zealand cities. Data from interviews with event attendees and organisers was thematically analysed using the McMillan and Chavis ‘sense of community’ framework, overlaid with a conceptualisation of subjective well-being developed by Davidson and Cotter. The analysis reveals strong evidence of the creation and maintenance of sense of community at multiple levels, from the diasporic Indian subcommunities through to the wider non-Indian macrocommunity. The most significant components are membership, fulfilment of needs and shared emotional connection: they are also the most significant point of intersection with factors contributing to subjective well-being. These cultural events provide event attendees with opportunities to experience and express positive affects such as happiness, joy, pride, pleasure. They also demonstrate influence in that they respect, promote and support the ethnic minority migrant subcommunity and act as a bridge to form a sense of community with the macrocommunity through membership and shared emotional connection. To maximise these wider benefits, we recommend practitioners hold such events regularly, advertise widely, select venues that are readily accessible and non-threatening, and provide informative explanatory content.

scholarly journals SUCCESSFUL AGEING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF YOUNG ADULTS IN POLAND

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 421
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kozerska
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Successful Ageing ◽  
The Third

On the basis of the theoretical and empirical analyses published in the scientific literature, it can be stated that the concept of successful ageing presented in educational discourses is understood differently by authors and it is focused primarily on three issues related to 1/ spirituality, 2/ well-being, 3/ a sense of community. The article discusses research results aimed at comparing ways of understanding successful ageing in the scientific literature with ways of defining this term by young adults in Poland. The survey participants are pedagogy students. The article attempts to answer the following questions: 1/ How do young adults in Poland understand the concept of successful ageing?, 2/ To what extent do the ways of understanding this concept, which have been distinguished based on the analysis of empirical data, coincide with a typology created based on a review literature. Data analysis (cluster analysis) enables to distinguish two types of successful ageing understood as a link between transcendence and generativity. The third type consists of elements of Rowe and Kahn model which are supplemented with good family relations.

scholarly journals Medical Violence, Obstetric Racism, and the Limits of Informed Consent for Black Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Colleen Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cesarean Sections ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Early American ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Unnecessary Procedures ◽  
A Site ◽  
Biological Race

This Essay critically examines how medicine actively engages in the reproductive subordination of Black women. In obstetrics, particularly, Black women must contend with both gender and race subordination. Early American gynecology treated Black women as expendable clinical material for its institutional needs. This medical violence was animated by biological racism and the legal and economic exigencies of the antebellum era. Medical racism continues to animate Black women’s navigation of and their dehumanization within obstetrics. Today, the racial disparities in cesarean sections illustrate that Black women are simultaneously overmedicalized and medically neglected—an extension of historical medical practices rooted in the logic of biological race. Though the principle of informed consent traditionally protects the rights of autonomy, bodily integrity, and well-being, medicine nevertheless routinely subjects Black women to medically unnecessary procedures. This Essay adopts the framework of obstetric racism to analyze Black women’s overmedicalization as a site of reproductive subordination. It thus offers a critical interdisciplinary and intersectional lens to broader conversations on race in reproduction and maternal health.

Using ICT to Resolve the Modernization Paradox for Rural Communities in Africa

2010 ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Dawn Hinton ◽  
Joseph Ofori-Dankwa
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Economic Well Being

Rural communities are being heavily influenced by the ongoing modernization process taking place in all African economies and nations. Theoretically the modernization process is intended to help lead to an increase in the economic well being of the citizenry. However, one of the unanticipated outcomes of continuing urbanization and modernization, particularly for rural communities would be the loss of local social relations within such communities. This is similar to what happened in the Western context, where modernization, in the form of industrialization resulted in the loss of social relationships and increasing sense of alienation as cities formed. There is therefore a very real fear that in the African context, the ensuing modernization will result in a paradox where modernization may lead to an increase in economic well-being, but have the unintended consequence of increasing alienation and reducing the sense of community that exists in rural villages. The purpose of this chapter is two-fold. First, the authors theoretically explore the possibility of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to develop a sense of community in rural villages and thus offset and mitigate the more negative aspects of the modernization process. Second, they propose a way to conceptualize this potential paradox by integrating the well established sociological concepts of Gemeinschaft (community) and Gesellschaft (individualism) with current paradox models of diversity and similarity curves. Such an approach has pedagogical utility in helping to describe and explain the modern paradox confronted by most of the African countries.

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