Strategic Mentoring: A Culturally Responsive Approach for Supporting Black Males

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472199806
Author(s):  
Quintin Leon Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Black Males ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Young Black Males

Young Black males living in single-parent homes, in spite of never having a mentor, understand the value of a responsible same-sex mentor. Thirteen Black males between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five offered well-expressed thoughts on mentoring and why they believe mentoring adds value to their lives. They characterized unstructured mentoring as a process without a specific agenda. The consideration of Black males struggling without a father in the home requires the serious consideration of strategic mentoring as a solution for change. Strategic mentoring has a clear purpose, is communication-centric, is designed to develop during the course of a long-term mutual commitment between mentor and mentee, and incorporates the child’s mother into the mentoring experience.

scholarly journals Dominance relationships and coalitionary aggression against conspecifics in female carrion crows

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt Holtmann ◽  
Julia Buskas ◽  
Matthew Steele ◽  
Kristaps Solokovskis ◽  
Jochen B. W. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dominance Relationships ◽  
Dominant Individual ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Cooperation is a prevailing feature of many animal systems. Coalitionary aggression, where a group of individuals engages in coordinated behaviour to the detriment of conspecific targets, is a form of cooperation involving complex social interactions. To date, evidence has been dominated by studies in humans and other primates with a clear bias towards studies of male-male coalitions. We here characterize coalitionary aggression behaviour in a group of female carrion crows consisting of recruitment, coordinated chase, and attack. The individual of highest social rank liaised with the second most dominant individual to engage in coordinated chase and attack of a lower ranked crow on several occasions. Despite active intervention by the third most highly ranked individual opposing the offenders, the attack finally resulted in the death of the victim. All individuals were unrelated, of the same sex, and naïve to the behaviour excluding kinship, reproduction, and social learning as possible drivers. Instead, the coalition may reflect a strategy of the dominant individual to secure long-term social benefits. Overall, the study provides evidence that members of the crow family engage in coordinated alliances directed against conspecifics as a possible means to manipulate their social environment.

scholarly journals A Review of Treatments for Young Black Males Experiencing Depression

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Lindsey ◽  
Andrae Banks ◽  
Catherine F. Cota ◽  
Marquisha Lawrence Scott ◽  
Sean Joe
Keyword(s):  
Black Males ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Treatment Effects ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
True Effect Size ◽  
Treatment Providers ◽  
Young Black Males

The objective was to qualitatively examine the treatment effects of depression interventions on young, Black males (YBM) across treatment providers and settings via a review. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) seeking to ameliorate depressive symptomology in Black males ages 12–29 were eligible for inclusion. After review of 627 abstracts and 212 full-text articles, 12 studies were selected. These RCTs were organized into five categories based on the intervention method. We isolated only one study that targeted YBM exclusively. Additionally, only two treatment effect sizes for YBM were available from the data. While remaining RCTs did involve Black youth, disaggregated data based on race and gender were not reported. Overall, the lack of research specific to YBM prevented any strong conclusions about the treatment effects on depression for this population. Small sample size along with poor representation of YBM were trends in the selected studies that also posed an issue. Therefore, our review produced qualitative findings but failed to isolate any true effect size for YBM being treated for depression. Until more conclusive evidence exists, alternative strategies may need to be employed in order to find appropriate interventions for depressed YBM seeking mental health treatment.

43 POST-EXERCISE BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSES IN YOUNG BLACK MALES

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S8
Author(s):  
S. A. Headley ◽  
J. M. Claiborne ◽  
C. R. Lottes ◽  
C. G. Korba
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Hemodynamic Responses ◽  
Post Exercise ◽  
Exercise Blood Pressure ◽  
Young Black Males

scholarly journals Demonstrate Values: Behavioral Displays of Moral Outrage as a Cue to Long-Term Mate Potential

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitch Brown ◽  
Lucas A. Keefer ◽  
Donald F. Sacco ◽  
Faith L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Moral Outrage ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Sexual Strategies ◽  
Social Opportunities ◽  
Sexual Strategies Theory

Recent findings suggest that moral outrage serves an interpersonal function of signaling trustworthiness to others and such perceptions play a uniquely important role in identifying social opportunities. We conducted four studies investigating how behavioral displays of moral outrage are perceived in the specific context of mating. Results indicated participants (particularly women) found prospective mates espousing outrage more desirable for long-term mating (Study 1), and this perception of desirability was similarly inferred among same-sex raters (Study 2). We further replicated findings in Study 1, while additionally considering the basis of women’s attraction toward outraged behavior through candidate mediators (Studies 3 and 4). Although we found consistent evidence for the long-term desirability of outraged behavior, in addition, to trustworthiness, evidence remained mixed on the extent to which evaluations of a prospective mate’s outrage was the basis of effects. We frame results from complementary perspectives of trust signaling and sexual strategies theory.

scholarly journals Sexual Citizenship and the Civil Union Act 2004

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Seuffert
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Committed Relationships ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
State Recognition ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Civil Union

This article analyses the parliamentary debates on the Civil Union Act 2004, which provides for legal recognition of same sex relationships, for stories of national identity.  A close reading of the parliamentary debates on the Act suggests that although the supporters and opponents of the legislation seemed to be worlds apart, many told similar stories about New Zealand as a nation, and citizens within that nation, emphasising similar values and aspirations.  Both sides told stories of citizens, of New Zealanders, as tolerant and fair, as forwarding-looking progressives who value stable long-term, committed relationships, warm loving communities for children, and strong families and family relationships.  Both sides generally saw marriage as a positive institution, a cornerstone of society and a building block for society and the nation.  While some talked of existing alternatives to marriage, such as de facto relationships, and there was some recognition that not all marriages are good ones, with a few notable exceptions, there was little mention of critiques of marriage as an institution and little or no positive mention of relationships outside of the paradigm of long-term committed, monogamous relationships.  Further, while there were arguments, reflecting a privatisation paradigm, that the Civil Union Act 2004 was not necessary since the rights and duties of same sex couples could be structured using the private law of contract and trusts (a claim that was debated), there was no suggestion that state recognition of marriage should be abolished, or that long-term heterosexual relationships should be structured through private law.

Culturally Responsive School Discipline: Implementing Learning Lab at a High School for Systemic Transformation

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1007-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aydin Bal ◽  
Kemal Afacan ◽  
Halil Ibrahim Cakir
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
School Discipline ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Expansive Learning ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
School Learning

Youth from racially minoritized communities disproportionately receive exclusionary school discipline more severely and frequently. The racialization of school discipline has been linked to long-term deleterious impacts on students’ academic and life outcomes. In this article, we present a formative intervention, Learning Lab that addressed racial disparities in school discipline at a public high school. Learning Lab successfully united local stakeholders, specifically those who had been historically excluded from the school’s decision-making activities. Learning Lab members engaged in historical and empirical root cause analyses, mapped out their existing discipline system, and designed a culturally responsive schoolwide behavioral support model in response to diverse experiences, resources, practices, needs, and goals of local stakeholders. Analysis drew on the theory of expansive learning to examine how the Learning Lab process worked through expansive learning actions. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Teenage Pregnancy and its Support System in Korea

2014 ◽  
pp. 137-163
Author(s):  
Naoko Sôma ◽  
Jiyoon Park ◽  
Sun-Hee Baek ◽  
Akemi Morita
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Unmarried Mothers ◽  
Family Support Act

While family structure continues to diversify in Korean society, society’s rejection of unmarried mothers continues to be a strong obstacle. However, Korean teenage mothers increasingly are deciding to raise their own children and live their daily lives in communities that hold biases and express rejection towards them. At present, the Single-Parent Family Support Act is central to the development of support policies for unmarried mothers, but as pointed out in this study, it is important to implement detailed, individualized, comprehensive, and continual assistance, not limited to those who opt for childrearing but also towards all unmarried mothers who opt for adoption. While raising one’s own child, it is important to provide long-term and continual support and support that helps the recipient foresee how she can step her way up to independence, rather than short-term and sporadic handouts.

Sexuality, Allegory and Interpretation

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-228
Author(s):  
Howard J. Booth
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Political ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Arctic Summer

Both Damon Galgut’s Arctic Summer and E. M. Forster’s Maurice explore success achieved in the face of society’s hostility to homosexuality. This chapter addresses both novels in terms of allegory and utopian possibility. Whilst Galgut’s adoption of biofiction in Arctic Summer aims to utilize the political and creative possibilities found in early modernist writing, the text’s tight control of narrative form and use of allegory leads to problems – that apparent newness is in fact highly scripted and controlled. Spurred by this consideration of Arctic Summer, a new approach is taken to Maurice that emphasises its openness as a text. The reader is encouraged to engage with issues of interpretation, with Maurice’s own development showing him becoming adept at reading complex, pressured situations. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is seen as an important intertext both for Maurice and the South African Anglophone tradition to which Galgut belongs. Using Walter Benjamin on natural history and allegory the chapter contends that Maurice, whilst maintaining its stress on how long-term same-sex relationships and cross-class love secure meaning in the world, also depicts a world that is always subject to change, loss and ruination.

Exploring the Polysemy of Voice and Silence

2018 ◽  
pp. 402-421
Author(s):  
Gust A. Yep ◽  
Rebecca N. Gigi ◽  
Briana E. Avila
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Court Ruling ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Supreme Court Ruling ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Voice And Silence

This chapter addresses the complex interplay between voice and silence in US LGBT communities. In terms of voice, the chapter focuses on Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry and colloquially known as “Mr. Gay Marriage,” whose public comments on same-sex divorce before and after the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality focused on two central themes: (1) fairness and (2) protection. In terms of silence, the chapter focuses on the largely absent discourse about same-sex divorce in mainstream LGBT online media to explore its multiple meanings. The analysis explores three major themes: (1) that same-sex divorce is a recent phenomenon, (2) that same-sex divorce may not be relevant to unconventional long-term relationships, and (3) that creation of a pseudo charmed circle suppresses the visibility of same-sex divorce. The chapter concludes by exploring the implications of the multiple meanings of voice and silence surrounding same-sex relational dissolution.

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