Skin Deep Disclosures: Motivations Driving Visible Forms of Disclosure among People Living with a Concealable Stigmatized Identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Pamara F. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Stigmatized Identity

The emotional context of disclosing a concealable stigmatized identity: A conceptual model

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn A. Berkley ◽  
Roxanne Beard ◽  
Catherine S. Daus
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Emotional Context ◽  
Stigmatized Identity

Resurrecting and Appending Identities: The Role of Nonprofits in Managing Stigmatized Identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110072
Author(s):  
Kristen E. Okamoto ◽  
Brittany L. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
Stigmatized Identity

Homelessness is an issue that impacts more than half a million people in the United States every day. Nonprofits are often on the front lines of efforts to aid individuals without homes. In this study, we focus on an area underexplored in the nonprofit literature, stigma, to explore the nonprofit’s role as a critical catalyst in managing stigma within and among client beneficiaries. Based on our interpretive analysis of interviews and observations of the nonprofit Running for Change (RFC), we delineate how RFC created conditions under which beneficiaries without homes could resurrect former identities and append new identities for themselves as part of the stigma management process. Our work carries implications for prior research on nonprofit organizing related to constituent participation and beneficiary empowerment and opens up new pathways for nonprofit partitioners to think about the agentic capacities of beneficiaries.

I may be Latino/a but I am a citizen: Distancing from a stigmatized identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Mendoza Lepe ◽  
Meg Aum Warren ◽  
William Crano
Keyword(s):  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
The Us ◽  
Unknown Status ◽  
Stigmatized Identity

Discrimination is often perceived as stemming from outgroups. Yet, intragroup hostilities between Latinx in the US might occur if disassociation from a stigmatized sub-group may serve to protect one’s status. This paper tests potential disassociation effects by examining whether US Latinx distance themselves from an associated stigmatized identity by supporting adverse policies regarding Latinx immigrants. Two studies (n=273 and n=8634) found that citizenship status was linked to support for adverse policies: more US-born Latinx considered immigrants a burden than Latinx of unknown status or non-citizens. Some Latinx citizens might cut off reflected failure associated with being an immigrant, because distancing might support coping with cultural demands of US residence and distancing from recent immigrants might prevent transference of negative stereotypes.

Rewriting a Discursive Practice: Atheist Adaptation of Coming Out Discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Cloud
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Category Membership ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Identity Category ◽  
Stigmatized Identity

Coming out is a powerful way for individuals to disclose, constitute, and perform membership in stigmatized identity categories. The practice has now spread far beyond its LGBTQ origins. In this essay, I examine how atheists and other secularists have taken up and adapted coming out discourse to meet their situational and rhetorical needs. Through an analysis of 50 narratives about coming out atheist, I show that atheist writers use coming out discourse to claim both high and low agency over their identities. They both follow and resist a low-agency approach that has sometimes characterized LGBTQ uses of coming out discourse. Furthermore, I argue that the attribution of high personal agency in coming out discourse and other discourses of identity can introduce themes of deliberation, choice, and uncertainty, leading to a richer public discussion of identity category membership.

Living With a Stigmatized Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 912-915
Author(s):  
Onoso Imoagene
Keyword(s):  
Stigmatized Identity
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