W. E. B. Du Bois, Respectable Child-Rearing, and the Representative Black Body

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Food Politics ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Black Equality

This chapter examines W.E.B. Du Bois’s food politics by closely scrutinizing the health-related advice he gave to his daughter, Yolande Du Bois. This chapter demonstrates that Du Bois and many other middle-class race leaders, self-anointed or otherwise, took great pains to control their children’s diets and to impart the significance of making thoughtful food choices. Du Bois considered black bodies, particularly those of the elite members of the black community, as exhibits of black equality and saw the task of preserving the black body as one not only of enormous individual concern but of significance to the advancement of the entire race.

Qualitative Descriptions of Middle-Class, African American Mothers’ Child-Rearing Practices and Values

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 868-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie M. Curenton ◽  
Jocelyn Elise Crowley ◽  
Dawne M. Mouzon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
African American Mothers ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
American Children ◽  
Decision To Stay ◽  
The Cost

During qualitative phone interviews, middle-class, mostly married African American mothers ( N = 25) describe their child-rearing responsibilities, practices, and values. They explain (a) why they decided to stay home or take work leave to attend to child rearing, (b) how they divided child-rearing responsibilities with their husbands/romantic partners, (c) whether they faced unique parenting challenges raising African American children, and (d) whether they identified as feminists. Responses revealed the decision to stay home or take work leave comprised values about gender roles, concerns about the cost and/or quality of child care, and the availability of family-friendly workplace policies. Most couples shared child-rearing responsibilities, although mothers admit to doing more. Their unique parenting challenge was protecting their children from racism, stereotyping, and discrimination. Only one third of the mothers identified as being feminists. These results have implications for furthering our knowledge about African American coparenting from a positive, strength-based perspective.

NutriScale: Key Figures for Daily Food Choices

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Jochen Bauer ◽  
Ina Volkhardt ◽  
Markus Michl ◽  
Christina Blumthaler ◽  
Sergej Wiebe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Food Selection ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Food Pyramid ◽  
Daily Food ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Medical Guidelines

In this paper the NutriScale-Algorithm is described. NutriScale interprets meals and calculates health related scores. It is based on a food pyramid, which was created by the German Nutrition Society according to existing food related and evidence based medical guidelines. Furthermore various food related mobile phone apps and professional desktop applications were analyzed to figure out, what functionality and data sources are appropriate to create such a promising key figure for food selection like NutriScale.

scholarly journals Looking Like People; Feeling Like People: The Black Body, Dress and Aesthetic Therapy in the Caribbean

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-872
Author(s):  
Marsha Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
New World ◽  
Black Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Discourse ◽  
Black Caribbean ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Bodily Practice ◽  
Instrumental Role

In the Caribbean, the practice of getting dressed matters because it is a practice of attending to the body. Under a colonial regime, black bodies were ill-treated and selves were negated. Clothing played an instrumental role in the abuse of bodies and the stripping of a sense of wellbeing. Attire was one key way of demarcating master and slave and rendering some members of society null and void. Enslaved Africans, who were forcibly brought across the Atlantic to the New World, were considered chattel or commodities rather than people and clothes functioned in a way that reinforced that notion. Yet, dress became a strategy of subversion – of making chattel, property or ‘non-people’ look like people. The enslaved recognised that, through clothes, it was possible to look and feel free. Today that legacy remains. Clothing is seen not only as that which can make a people ‘look like people’ but also feel like people – clothing sets up a specific structure of feeling. This paper pivots on notions of looking and feeling like people while deploying Joanne Entwistle’s conceptual framework of dress as situated bodily practice. The article locates its investigation in the Caribbean, examining the philosophy and practice of Trinidadian clothing designer Robert Young. The article establishes him as a source of aesthetic therapeutic solutions in the Caribbean. It argues that his clothing designs produce a therapeutic discourse on the Black Caribbean body – a discourse, which facilitates a practice of getting dressed that gives a sense of agency, self-empowerment and psychic security even if that sense is embodied temporarily; lasting perhaps only as long as the garment is worn.

Autonomy-Control Variation in Child-Rearing and Anomie in Young Adults

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton F. De Man
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
University Students ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Control Variation

60 middle-class university students took part in a study investigating the relationship between autonomy-control variation in child rearing and levels of anomie in young adulthood. 20 subjects came from a background encouraging autonomy, 20 from one intermediate, and 20 from families characterized by control. Each of the 3 groups included 11 males and 9 females. All participants perceived their family backgrounds as warm and loving. Results indicate that subjects encouraged in autonomy as compared to those with a control background tend to report lower levels of anomie.

Mothers, Welfare Organizations, and Reproducing for the Nation

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-126
Author(s):  
Nimisha Barton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social And Emotional

This chapter discusses how France emerged both as a safe haven on the continent between the wars and as a maternal haven with Paris its undisputed capital. It discusses the demographic angst and pronatalist zeal that gripped French decision makers in the early Third Republic, which encouraged population-minded state officials and benevolent bourgeoises of private charities to join forces for the sake of the future of France. It also explains how public assistance was fleshed out by scores of private charitable organizations that were run by middle-class Frenchwomen who had emerged over the course of the nineteenth century. The chapter mentions social workers of welfarist organizations that provided French and foreign mothers financial, social, and emotional assistance with the tasks of childbearing, child-rearing, and household management. The chapter also describes public and private assistance networks that forged a wide-ranging maternalist and familialist welfare world in France.

Building trust, elevating voices, and sharing power in family partnership

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 49-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Davidson ◽  
Madeleine Case
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Colorado School ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Class Child ◽  
Family Partnership ◽  
Marginalized Families

Research has shown that traditional ways of promoting family involvement in school are often ineffective, especially among families whose approach does not align with the middle-class child-rearing practices embraced in many U.S. schools. To encourage greater family involvement, a Colorado school district is piloting a program in which educators and families partner to build relationships and make decisions together. By elevating the voices of marginalized families, school leaders hope to strengthen the bonds between families and schools, to the benefit of the students.

SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY: LESSONS FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS*

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Aldon Morris
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Black People ◽  
Accurate Analysis ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The 1960S

This article addresses why movement scholars had no idea that the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s and 70s were imminent. In fact, their theories led them to predict that these movements were impossible because only whites possessed history-making agency. These scholars accepted the dogma that black people, their culture, and their institutions were inferior and incapable of organizing and leading powerful movements. This article demonstrates that the black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois predicted those movements a half century before they occurred. He did so because he conducted concrete empirical analyses of the black community, and his lived experiences led him to reject the thesis of black inferiority. This article argues that the field of social movements remains too white and elitist and that this condition causes less robust and accurate analysis. The article suggests ways to make needed changes.

Psychometric Properties of the Brazilian Health Locus of Control Scale

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Paine ◽  
Luiz Pasquali ◽  
Eduardo de São Paulo ◽  
Ana Lúcia P. Bianchi ◽  
Andrea C. Solha
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Multidimensional Health

Based on social learning theory, the construct of health locus of control has proven valuable in predicting a wide variety of health-related behaviors. In studying this concept among Brazilians, the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale translated into Brazilian Portuguese were investigated in a sample of 280 middle-class persons. Three types of health locus of control were verified, internal, powerful others, and chance. Further refinement of subscales is needed to improve internal consistency reliabilities.

Foremost Musician and Engaged Citizen

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Eastern Seaboard

This chapter examines how Harry T. Burleigh came to represent African Americans as their premiere baritone and leading composer while also establishing a reputation as an engaged citizen in the first decades of the twentieth century. It first considers Burleigh's active participation in the life of the black community in New York and other cities on the eastern seaboard, lending the weight of his renown to benefit numerous social and educational causes, including efforts to improve the health and general welfare of African Americans. It then discusses Burleigh's connection with the city's black church community, including St. Philip's Episcopal Church and other Episcopal congregations, along with his relationships with Booker T. Washington, Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and W. E. B. Du Bois. The chapter also describes Burleigh's position regarding the lynchings and race riots in various parts of the country.

Cognitive and Value Correlates of Health-Related Behavior in Brazilian Middle-class Women

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 516-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Paine ◽  
Luiz Pasquali ◽  
Carlos Augusto Barros Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Health Related
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