It Takes an Urban Village

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
NANCY L. MARSHALL ◽  
ANNE E. NOONAN ◽  
KATHLEEN McCARTNEY ◽  
FERN MARX ◽  
NANCY KEEFE
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
African American ◽  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
European American ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Schoolaged Child

This study examined the extent to which an urban village exists, in a sample of 206 African American, European American, and Hispanic American families with an elementary schoolaged child. The urban village was evident in parental social networks with family, friends, and neighbors, although the nature of these networks varied. Multiple regression analyses indicated that parental social networks have an indirect effect on children's socioemotional development, mediated by parenting. Parents who received more emotional support and had less homogeneous social networks were more warm and responsive, provided a more stimulating home environment, and felt more effective as parents. These parenting characteristics, in turn, were associated with fewer behavior problems and more social competence in the children.

Do You See What I See? Effects of Group Consciousness on African American Women's Attributions to Prejudice

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly R. King
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
European American ◽  
African American Female ◽  
Group Consciousness ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
Women’S Perceptions

This study examined the effects of three types of group consciousness among African American women ( ethnic, feminist, and womanist) on prejudice attributions and appraised personal significance ( centrality) of a negative intergroup event. African American female college students ( N = 123) imagined themselves in an audiotaped scenario in which they overheard two European American male classmates make negative evaluations of them. The scenario provided no cause for the negative evaluations and no references to race or gender. Multiple regression analyses revealed that higher ethnic and womanist consciousness were related to increased prejudice attributions and greater centrality appraisals ( p < .05), while feminism had no effect. Results suggest that womanist consciousness may be more relevant than traditional feminist consciousness in predicting African American women's perceptions of prejudice.

scholarly journals Who Can I Turn To? Emotional Support Availability in African American Social Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sula Hood ◽  
Elizabeth Golembiewski ◽  
Kyle Benbow ◽  
Hadyatoullaye Sow ◽  
Vetta Sanders Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
African American ◽  
Emotional Support

The Spiritual Aftermath

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
African American ◽  
New World ◽  
American Music ◽  
European American ◽  
Black Composers ◽  
Negro Spirituals ◽  
White American ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Concert Programs

After Dvořák’s eventual departure from the National Conservatory in 1895, the New World Symphony continued to be a flash point in discussions about the relationships between African American and European American music and musicians, particularly the repertoire known as “Negro spirituals.” White American-born composers, such as Henry F. Gilbert and John Powell, continued to complain about lack of representation on concert programs while failing to support their Black counterparts, who leveraged relationships with figures inside and outside the musical world to create new social networks for finding professional success. In the early 1930s, William Dawson and Florence Price became the first Black composers to premiere symphonies drawing musical inspiration from early African American vernacular song and dance.

Measuring Urban Teachers’ Beliefs About African American Students

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prathiba Natesan ◽  
Vincent Kieftenbeld
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Teacher Beliefs ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
African American Students ◽  
European American ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Urban Teachers ◽  
African American Teachers ◽  
American Students ◽  
Teachers Beliefs

Understanding urban teachers’ beliefs about African American students has become important because (a) many teachers are reluctant to teach students from other cultures, and (b) most teachers are European American. To construct a psychometrically sound measure of teacher beliefs, the authors investigate the measurement properties of a teacher beliefs factor. This factor was selected from an inventory of items that purported to measure urban teachers’ cultural awareness and beliefs. Measurement invariance of the teacher beliefs factor across European American, African American, and Hispanic American teachers addressed its construct validity. The authors examine the psychometric properties of these items using graded response multilevel analysis. The final 5-item factor showed highest level of invariance for African American and European American teachers but did not fit Hispanic American teachers well. All the five items had good psychometric properties. Analyses of latent means showed that African American teachers had more positive beliefs about African American students than European American teachers did. However, the latent scores were bimodally distributed for African American teachers showing that one subgroup of African American teachers had similar beliefs as European American teachers while another subgroup had more positive beliefs.

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