Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Mark R. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Black Student ◽  
White Male ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
Male Professor ◽  
Parents Of Color ◽  
Black Parent

The Introduction opens with the stories of a Black parent and a Black student who were victims of the school-to-prison pipeline and their journeys to racial justice organizing. These experiences and these stories ground the emergence of the movement to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. The Introduction then recounts the author’s own journey to awareness of the school-to-prison pipeline and describes the development of the community engaged research project upon which the book is based. It recounts the author’s traumatic experiences in the field witnessing the abusive treatment of students and parents of color, and it discusses the challenges faced addressing the author’s privileges and positionality as a white, male professor partnering with and studying organizers and leaders of color based in low-income communities. It ends with an overview of the book and its chapters.

scholarly journals Physical Health Symptoms and Hurricane Katrina: Individual Trajectories of Development and Recovery More Than a Decade After the Storm

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Meghan Zacher ◽  
Ethan J. Raker ◽  
Mariana C. Arcaya ◽  
Sarah R. Lowe ◽  
Jean Rhodes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Back Problems ◽  
Low Income Mothers

Objectives. To examine how physical health symptoms developed and resolved in response to Hurricane Katrina. Methods. We used data from a 2003 to 2018 study of young, low-income mothers who were living in New Orleans, Louisiana, when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 (n = 276). We fit logistic regressions to model the odds of first reporting or “developing” headaches or migraines, back problems, and digestive problems, and of experiencing remission or “recovery” from previously reported symptoms, across surveys. Results. The prevalence of each symptom increased after Hurricane Katrina, but the odds of developing symptoms shortly before versus after the storm were comparable. The number of traumatic experiences endured during Hurricane Katrina increased the odds of developing back and digestive problems just after the hurricane. Headaches or migraines and back problems that developed shortly after Hurricane Katrina were more likely to resolve than those that developed just before the storm. Conclusions. While traumatic experiences endured in disasters such as Hurricane Katrina appear to prompt the development of new physical symptoms, disaster-induced symptoms may be less likely to persist or become chronic than those emerging for other reasons.

Rise of the Black Campus Movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-103
Author(s):  
Matthew Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Black Student ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Black Activism ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Successful Student ◽  
Black Campus Movement ◽  
Managerial Strategy ◽  
The University

This chapter looks at the rise of the black campus movement. University of Michigan (UM) leaders were not ready for black campus activism; they took comfort in the fact that black activism was still something unfolding off campus. That all changed in the late 1960s. Black activism that took over buildings and shut down classes threatened university operations. The black campus activists also offered more radical visions of inclusion than federal bureaucrats had. They wanted to create an institution that saw racial justice as the driving force of its mission. A new president led the University of Michigan through these protests. Arriving at the university in January of 1968, Robben Fleming introduced a new managerial strategy to co-opt activism. His efforts worked briefly to stem the tide of black student protests in the late 1960s, but they ultimately failed when Fleming did not provide the types of policies and initiatives that would satisfy activists. By 1970, black student activists organized the most successful student strike in the university's history, calling into question whether UM leaders could retain control of the meaning and character of racial inclusion.

One flew over the duck pond: Autoethnography, academic identity, and language

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 576-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Tienari
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
White Male ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Language And Power ◽  
Complex Power ◽  
Male Professor

Autoethnography is about studying a community through the author’s personal experience. I offer my autoethnography of moving from a Finnish-speaking business school to a Swedish-speaking one in Helsinki, Finland. This is my story as a Finnish speaker who works in English, develops a sense of lack and guilt for not contributing in Swedish, and enacts an identity of an outsider in his community. My ambivalent identity work as a privileged yet increasingly anxious white male professor elucidates connections between identity, language, and power, and it may enable me to see glimpses of what those who are truly marginalized and excluded experience. I argue that academic identity is based on language, and once that foundation is shaken, it can trigger self-reflection that helps to show how language is inevitably tied in with complex power relations in organizations. I offer my story as an invitation to discuss how we learn to deal with the complexity of identity work and language. My story lays bare how autoethnographies by the privileged, too, can be useful if they show the vulnerability we all experience in contemporary universities.

scholarly journals Do patient-reported outcome measures measure up? A qualitative study to examine perceptions and experiences with heart failure proms among diverse, low-income patients

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Davis ◽  
Kristan Olazo ◽  
Maribel Sierra ◽  
Michelle E. Tarver ◽  
Brittany Caldwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
White Male ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Patient Reported Outcome ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Patients With Heart Failure

Abstract Background The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) is a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) used to evaluate the health status of patients with heart failure (HF) but has predominantly been tested in settings serving predominately white, male, and economically well-resourced populations. We sought to examine the acceptability of the shorter version of the KCCQ (KCCQ-12) among racially and ethnically diverse patients receiving care in an urban, safety-net setting. Methods We conducted cognitive interviews with a diverse population of patients with heart failure in a safety net system to assess their perceptions of the KCCQ-12. We conducted a thematic analysis of the qualitative data then mapped themes to the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation Model of Behavior framework. Results We interviewed 18 patients with heart failure and found that patients broadly endorsed the concepts of the KCCQ-12 with minor suggestions to improve the instrument’s content and appearance. Although patients accepted the KCCQ-12, we found that the instrument did not adequately measure aspects of health care and quality of life that patients identified as being important components of managing their heart failure. Patient-important factors of heart failure management coalesced into three main themes: social support, health care environment, and mental health. Conclusions Patients from this diverse, low-income, majority non-white population experience unique challenges and circumstances that impact their ability to manage disease. In this study, patients were receptive to the KCCQ-12 as a tool but perceived that it did not adequately capture key health components such as mental health and social relationships that deeply impact their ability to manage HF. Further study on the incorporation of social determinants of health into PROMs could make them more useful tools in evaluating and managing HF in diverse, underserved populations.

scholarly journals Deconstructing PTSD: Trauma and emotion among Mexican immigrant women

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152090312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Kimmell ◽  
Emily Mendenhall ◽  
Elizabeth A Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Psychological Stressors ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women ◽  
History Narratives

The symptomatology for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) narrowly focuses on particular diagnostic frames and a single triggering event. Such narrow definitions of trauma and recovery have been heavily critiqued by anthropologists and cultural psychiatrists for overlooking cultural complexity as well as the effects of multiple and overlapping events that may cause someone to become “traumatized” and thereby affect recovery. This article investigates how subjective reporting of traumatic experience in life history narratives relates to depressive and PTSD symptomatology, cultural idioms, and repeated traumatic experiences among low-income Mexican immigrant women in Chicago. We interviewed 121 Mexican immigrant women and collected life history narratives and psychiatric scales for depression and PTSD. Most women spoke of the detrimental effects of repeated traumatic experiences, reported depressive (49%) and PTSD (38%) symptoms, and described these experiences through cultural idioms. These data complicate the PTSD diagnosis as a discrete entity that occurs in relation to a single acute event. Most importantly, these findings reveal the importance of cumulative trauma and cultural idioms for the recognition of suffering and the limitation of diagnostic categories for identifying the needs of those who experience multiple social and psychological stressors.

Affirmatively Furthering Community Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward G. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The Political ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Policy Alternative ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Counter Argument

This chapter presents a counter-argument to the integration imperative. The chapter offers critiques of the integration argument and presents an argument in favour of affordable housing and community development in low-income communities of color. The chapter articulates how integration falls short in altering the political dynamics and structural inequalities of race. In contrast, community development is presented as a policy alternative that provides benefits to disadvantaged communities (in terms of better housing and jobs, for example) and constitutes a better alternative for addressing more fundamental questions of racial justice.

“Our Stories Are Powerful”: The Use of Youth Storytelling in Policy Advocacy to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-194
Author(s):  
JEFFREY S. MOYER ◽  
MARK R. WARREN ◽  
ANDREW R. KING
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline ◽  
Youth Leaders ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Racial Gaps ◽  
Common Strategy

The use of narratives and storytelling has become an increasingly common strategy in grassroots organizing and advocacy efforts to influence policy change. Drawing on qualitative interviews and observations, Jeffrey Moyer, Mark Warren, and Andrew King present a case study of the successful campaign by Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) to pass SB100, a progressive Illinois law aimed at ending the school-to-prison pipeline. The authors show that personal storytelling, when combined with other approaches, constitutes an effective strategy for youth organizing groups in low-income communities of color to achieve racial equity and educational justice policy goals. In this case, youth leaders involved in VOYCE told legislators their personal stories of the harm done to them and their friends by zero-tolerance school discipline and spoke to the racial inequities they faced. In doing so, they countered previously held narratives of youth of color as troublemakers and violence-prone and created a moral urgency for legislators to act. Youth leaders used storytelling and data to build a larger alliance of supporters, which contributed to the passage of a bill that limited harsh discipline, promoted restorative justice alternatives, and took steps to close racial gaps in suspensions and expulsions.

“Our Issues, Our People—Math as Our Weapon”: Critical Mathematics in a Chicago Neighborhood High School

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 454-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric “Rico” Gutstein
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Class A ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Critical Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Class

This article provides an example of, and lessons from, teaching and learning critical mathematics in a Chicago public neighborhood high school with a social justice focus. It is based on a qualitative study of my untracked, 12th–grade mathematics class, a full–year enactment of mathematics for social and racial justice. Students were Black and Latin@ from a low–income, working–class community with a tradition of resistance. Any neighborhood student could enroll without selection criteria. The class goal was for students to cocreate a classroom in which they would learn and use collegepreparatory, conceptually based mathematics to study and understand social reality to prepare themselves to change it. Through analyzing my practice, I address possibilities and challenges of curriculum development and teaching, examine student learning, and pose questions and directions for further research and practice.

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