August Wilson’s Fences: A Portrait of an African American Family Viewed from the Conflicts among the Family Members

This article focuses on how the African American family can be an important resource for assisting the family member with a disability to achieve vocational rehabilitation goals. The rehabilitation needs of the African American family will be identified and then an intervention model and needed counselor competencies will be suggested that could assist the rehabilitation counselor to work effectively with this culturally distinct family.

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Sources of Support for African-American Family Members of Homicide Victims

Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work ◽

10.1080/15313200801947231 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 197-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Tanya L. Sharpe

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Family Members ◽

African American Family ◽

American Family ◽

Sources Of Support

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Black Ghosts of the Diasporic Memory in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

Roczniki Humanistyczne ◽

10.18290/rh216911-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 69 (11) ◽

pp. 63-77

Author(s):

Vicent Cucarella-Ramon

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Jim Crow ◽

African American Family ◽

The Novel ◽

American Family ◽

Memory Work ◽

The Family ◽

Healing Processes

This article reads Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) as a novel that follows an African American family facing the ghosts of their past and present to resurrect buried stories that are unrelentingly interlocked with the legacy of slavery and the draconian racist practices of Jim Crow. I posit that the novel participates in the re-examination of the trope of the ghost as a healing asset that needs to be accommodated within the retrieval of memory work. Thus, the enactment of this African diasporic memory facilitates the encounter with their ghosts so that the family can start their healing processes and be provided with the tools and examples of how to keep on coming to terms together with and against the legacy of slavery and the present racist practices.

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Coping With Grief Responses Among African American Family Members of Homicide Victims

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-12-00083r1 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 332-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tanya L. Sharpe ◽

Philip Osteen ◽

Jodi Jacobson Frey ◽

Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Family Members ◽

African American Family ◽

American Family ◽

Loved One ◽

Grief Responses ◽

Grief Reactions ◽

Traumatic Impact

Research relevant to coping with grief for African American family members of homicide victims is limited. This retrospective study was conducted to determine the effects of gender, length of time since death, the traumatic impact of experiencing the homicide of a loved one, and the use of coping strategies to current grief reactions of African American family members of homicide victims (N = 44). Multiple regression analysis results suggest that gender and level of traumatic stress, related to posttraumatic stress symptomatology, predict current symptoms of grief. Women reported higher levels of current grief symptoms than men. Family members of homicide victims who reported higher levels of posttraumatic stress symptomology reported higher levels of current grief. Implications for research and recommendations for practitioners are discussed.

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