scholarly journals Intragroup differences in COVID-19 vaccine attitudes among Black Americans

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Senteio ◽  
Christie Newton ◽  
Gordon Pennycook ◽  
David Gertler Rand
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Variation Explained ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Of Acculturation

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Black Americans threatens to further magnify racial inequities in COVID-19 related health outcomes that emerged in the earliest stages of the pandemic. Here we shed new light on attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines by considering intragroup variation. Rather than analyzing Blacks as a homogenous group, we examine the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and the extent to which participants are aligned with African American versus White culture (i.e., level of “acculturation”). In a sample of N=997 Black Americans, we find that stronger alignment with African American culture predicts substantially more negative attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination, above and beyond variation explained by age, gender, education, and socioeconomic status. This relationship was substantially attenuated when controlling for suspicion of the healthcare system, but not perceptions that healthcare system treats Blacks unfairly, science knowledge, or cognitive reflection. The intragroup differences among Blacks in COVID-19 vaccine perceptions uncovered here provide insights into designing interventions that provide health information that targets the relevant factors for vaccine hesitancy in differing subgroups.

Vocal Self-Identification Singing Style, and Singing Range in Relationship to a Measure of Cultural Mistrust in African-American Adolescent Females

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly Johnson Chinn
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Cultural Mistrust ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
African American Adolescent ◽  
Singing Style ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chest Voice ◽  
African American Adolescent Females

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between high or low cultural mistrust and the vocal characteristics of African-American adolescent females (N = 44). The vocal characteristics were vocal self identification, singing style, and singing range. The subjects were assigned to high or low cultural mistrust groups based on scores on the Cultural Mistrust Inventory. A researcher-devised vocal self-identification survey provided information about the subjects' vocal self-concepts and acceptance of vocal models. Subjects sang “America” in a key and style of choice for the singing-style measurement. The performances were analyzed for eight style characteristics: bends, glides, breathiness, hoarseness, raspiness, dips, hard attacks, and emphasis of chest voice. Results indicated statistically significant differences between two groups on each vocal characteristic. The high-mistrust group demonstrated more characteristics associated with the African-American culture than did the low-mistrust group.

Disgust Sensitivity and Attitudes toward Organ Donation among African-American College Students

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy C. Sherman ◽  
Robert J. Smith ◽  
Martin F. Sherman ◽  
Patti Rickert-Wilbur
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
African American ◽  
Organ Donation ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Behavioral Measure ◽  
African American College Students ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
African American Population ◽  
The Relationship

241 African-American college students (94 men and 147 women, mean age = 20.3 ± 3.4 yr.) completed the 1994 Disgust Scale of Haidt, McCauley, and Rozin and a modified form of Parisi-Rizzo's 1987 Attitudes Toward Organ Donation Scale (negative subscale only) as well as a behavioral measure of intention to donate organs after death. Analyses indicated that the higher the disgust sensitivity, the more negative the attitude toward organ donation and the less likely the student was to indicate intent to donate organs. It was further shown that negative attitudes toward organ donation mediated the relationship between disgust sensitivity and the behavioral intention measure. Results highlight the complexity of the issues surrounding organ donation within an African-American population and provide additional empirical evidence for the development of a theoretical model to explain the organ donation phenomenon.

The Impact of Social Movements on the Development of African American Museums

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Black People ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Black Museums ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The effort to preserve African American history is firmly grounded in the struggle for freedom and equality. Black people understood the relationship between heritage and the freedom struggle. Such struggles in the pre and post Civil War eras spurred the preservation of African and African American culture first in libraries and archives and later museums. The civil rights, Black Power, Black Arts and Black Studies movements helped advance social and political change, which in turn spurred the development of Black museums as formal institutions for preserving African American culture.

Out on the floor: the politics of dancing on the Northern Soul scene

Popular Music ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIM WALL
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Physical Movement ◽  
Full Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Northern Soul scene is a dance-based music culture that originated in the English North and Midlands in the early 1970s. It still thrives today with a mix of forty-year-olds and new converts, and its celebration of 1960s' soul has an international following. Centred on the detail of the dance techniques, and musical and cultural context, the analysis presented here is developed from an ethnographic study. It uses a concept of competence and the example of a classic record to explore the meanings of dance for the scene's participants. The importance of solidarity, senses of identity through gender, place and ethnicity, and the relationship of the scene with African–American culture are explored. The study draws conclusions about the way that dance can be theorised and analysed, and argues that a full analysis requires an exploration of the relationship of physical movement to space, music and senses of identity.

scholarly journals Beyond Tuskegee, To Middlesboro: How Perspectives of Policing Shape Vaccine Attitudes for Black Americans

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Rosenthal ◽  
Matt Motta ◽  
Christina E. Farhart
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Police Attitudes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nationally Representative

Attempts to explain the higher levels of vaccine skepticism among Black Americans frequentlyfocus on the history of racial discrimination within the American healthcare system. Whilestudying this discrimination is important, we argue that past research overlooks the role of law enforcement actors outside the healthcare system; both in their history of supporting medical discrimination, and in its contemporary function as a coercive face of the state that may influence Black American’s concerns about vaccines. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal nationally representative surveys, we demonstrate that police attitudes have a strong and causal effect on vaccine skepticism and opposition to pro-vaccine policies among Black Americans. These findings point to the importance of reforming areas outside of the medical field, such as policing, in order to promote lasting declines in vaccine hesitancy.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Cameron Leader-Picone
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Black Politics ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The chapter length introduction, “The Post Era,” historicizes both popular cultural (i.e. colorblindness and post-racialism) and scholarly attempts to periodize contemporary African American culture and literary aesthetics (i.e. post-soul, post-black, and postrace). It connects these conceptualizations with the revision of Du Bois’s idea of double consciousness. The introduction locates these shifts in the new millennium in the context of Black politics and the rise of Barack Obama. It also addresses the relationship of the current moment in African American literature with past movements, focusing especially on the post era’s repudiation of the Black Arts Movement.

Examination of the Relationship Among Hypnotized Ability, Gender, and Spiritual Activities for African American College Students

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling-Lun Chien ◽  
Marty Sapp ◽  
Jane P. Liu ◽  
Steve Bernfeld ◽  
Steffanie J. Scholze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
African American ◽  
African American College Students ◽  
The Relationship
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