The Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians: Black Families, Black Relationships, Black Sexuality Conference: A Professional Conference for Scholars and Practitioners

This study used an explanatory sequential mixed-method design to explore the association between familial interdependence and familial mentoring relationship presence within black families. This study also examined how socioeconomic disadvantage may moderate the association between familial interdependence and familial mentoring presence. A sample of 216 black youth (59% girls; 41% boys) were surveyed, and a subsample of 25 participants were interviewed along with one of their parents, and one nonparental familial adult with whom the youth reported feeling emotionally close to learn more about the enactment of familial interdependence and the formation of familial mentoring relationships across social class. Logistic regression analyses revealed that greater valuing of familial interdependence was associated with a greater likelihood of having a familial mentoring relationship, but this association was present only among nonsocioeconomically disadvantaged youth. Data collected from participant interviews were analyzed to better understand this pattern of findings. These analyses provided some preliminary insights into why familial interdependence may predict familial mentor formation only among nonsocioeconomically disadvantaged youth. Implications of study findings for the promotion of familial mentoring relationships within black families are discussed.

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Editor's Note: Black Sexuality and Relationships Matter!

Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships ◽

10.1353/bsr.2020.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. vii-ix ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

James C. Wadley

Keyword(s):

Black Sexuality

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Conscription and the Color Line: Rawls, Race and Vietnam

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s1479244320000463 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Brandon M. Terry

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Economic Inequality ◽

Black Americans ◽

Black Families ◽

Ideal Theory ◽

Racial Group ◽

Color Line ◽

Racial Injustice ◽

Black Poverty

This article revisits one of John Rawls's rare forays into activist politics, his proposal presented to the Harvard faculty, calling for a denunciation of the “2-S” system of student deferments from conscription. In little-studied archival papers, Rawls argued that the draft both exposed “background” structural racial injustice and constituted a burdening of black Americans that violated the norms of fair cooperation. Rather than obscuring racial injustice and focusing exclusively on economic inequality, as Charles Mills has claimed, Rawls rejected the ascendant conservative views that naturalized black poverty or else attributed it to cultural pathologies in black families. Thus Rawls found nothing illicit in taking the position of a disadvantaged racial group as a relevant comparison when applying his ideal theory to nonideal circumstances. However, I contend in this article that Rawls's account of political philosophy as an attempt to find a consensus may be similarly ideological, leading him to displace the reality of conflict through begging descriptions, expressivist formulations, and historical romanticism.

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