My Journey as a Citizen Therapist

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Doherty
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
The Way

My story begins with the idealism of humanistic and family systems therapies of the 1970s, followed by disillusionment with making a difference in the larger world, and then the discovery of citizen therapist work. I describe my initial forays into direct community action and then two current projects on major social problems: police relationships with the African American community and political polarization in the Trump era. A key breakthrough along the way was coming to see my role as a citizen professional in a democracy—acting with community members rather than just for them.

Beliefs About Causes of Schizophrenia Among Urban African American Community Members

2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Broussard ◽  
Sandra M. Goulding ◽  
Colin L. Talley ◽  
Michael T. Compton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Community Members

scholarly journals The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem and Ben Ammi’s Theology of Marginalisation and Reorientation

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Michael T Miller
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Black American ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Spiritual Leader ◽  
American Group ◽  
The Way

This paper will look at the way the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem have utilised the theological narrative of marginalisation in their quest for identity and self-determination. The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are an expatriate black American group who have lived in Israel since 1969, when their spiritual leader, Detroit-born Ben Ammi, received a vision commanding him to take his people back to the Promised Land. Drawing on a long tradition in the African American community that self-identified as the biblical Israelites, the African Hebrew Israelites are marginalised in their status as Americans, as Jews, and as Israelis. We will examine the writings of Ben Ammi in order to demonstrate that this biblically based motif of marginalisation was a key part of his theology, and one which enabled his movement to grow and sustain itself; yet, in comparison with other contemporaneous theological movements, Ben Ammi utilised a specific variant of this motif. Rejecting the more common emphasis on liberation, Ammi argued for an eschatological reorientation around the marginalised. This article will conclude that Ben Ammi’s theology is key to understanding how the community has oriented itself and how it has proved successful in lasting 50 years against both internal disputes and external attacks.

Liberation Through Literacy

2017 ◽  
pp. 35-82
Author(s):  
Joshua Clark Davis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black History ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Mind

Chapter two examines Black-Power activists who founded scores of bookstores throughout the country in the 1960s and ‘70s, hoping to prompt both a “revolution of the mind” and a transformation of business culture in black communities. These activists hailed bookstores as information centers where African American community members could meet to learn about and agitate for radical movements for racial equality and black progress. African American booksellers’ sought to further the work of the Black Power movement by affirming racial pride, celebrating black history and identity, and promoting connections to and interest in Africa. As Black Power declined over the course of the 1970s, however, black bookstores were compelled to deal in an ever broader range of black-authored written works, many of them less political in nature.

scholarly journals Gown Goes to Town: Negotiating Mutually Beneficial Relationships between College Students, City Planners, and a Historically Marginalized African-American Neighborhood

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
April Jackson ◽  
Tisha Holmes ◽  
Tyler McCreary
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
African American Community ◽  
State University ◽  
Community Members ◽  
University Planning ◽  
City Planners

University–community partnerships have long sought to develop interventions to empower historically marginalized community members. However, there is limited critical attention to tensions faced when community engaged courses support urban planning initiatives in communities of color. This article explores how three Florida State University planning classes sought to engage the predominantly African-American Griffin Heights community in Tallahassee, Florida. Historically, African-American communities have been marginalized from the planning process, undermining community trust and constraining city planning capacity to effectively engage and plan with African-American community members. In this context, there are opportunities for planning departments with relationships in the African-American community to facilitate more extensive community engagement and urban design processes that interface with broader city planning programs. However, mediating relationships between the community and the city within the context of applied planning classes presents unique challenges. Although city planners have increasingly adopted the language of community engagement, many processes remain inflexible, bureaucratic, and under resourced. Reliance on inexperienced students to step in as community bridges may also limit the effectiveness of community engagement. Thus, while community engaged courses create opportunities to facilitate community empowerment, they also at times risk perpetuating the disenfranchisement of African-American community members in city planning processes.

Of Sharing Authority and Historic Blocs

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Paul J. P. Sandul
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The Other ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The One

This article explores tensions present within a collaborative oral history project (i.e., sharing authority) concerning the East Texan African American community of Nacogdoches. It focuses on an often-neglected aspect about sharing authority: the competing conception of audience for public historians/professionals, on the one hand, and community members, on the other. Such differences, however, have led to the consideration of exciting new directions, especially as it concerns sharing authority’s potential to foster affect and empathy, which further signal sharing authority’s possible power to help assemble what has been called “historic blocs” capable of challenging local hegemony and marginalization.

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