Intersecting Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors in Black Mothers Resilience Building Following Loss to Gun Violence in Canada

Bailey, Annette; Akhtar, Mahlon; Clarke, Jennifer G.; Starr, Sky

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17326-9_21

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“…Finally, Stage 3 findings reinforce previous depictions of meaning-making after homicide as an active endeavor (Armour, 2003;Bailey et al, 2015) and highlight the centrality of intentionality in the later phases of homicidal bereavement. Participants entered Stage 3 once they were able to transfer their energies from sense making to more active forms of meaning-making.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

“…While the risk of spiritual struggle after homicide is clear, studies have also highlighted spirituality as a positive resource for homicide survivors (Bailey et al, 2015(Bailey et al, , 2013Sharpe, 2015) and documented spiritual growth among homicide survivor samples (Johnson & Armour, 2016;Parappully, Rosenbaum, van den Daele, & Nzewi, 2002). Bailey et al (2013) identified spiritual meaningmaking as a process that supports meaningful accounts of loss by homicide and promotes the building of resilience.…”

Section: Resilience Transformational Change and Spiritual Growth Afmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bailey et al (2013) identified spiritual meaningmaking as a process that supports meaningful accounts of loss by homicide and promotes the building of resilience. In a subsequent study, Bailey et al (2015) highlighted spiritual strength as a resource that empowers survivors to pursue meaning after homicide (e.g., by engaging in social action). While these studies did not look at spiritual growth specifically, they highlight spirituality as a positive force in survivors' lives and serve as a segue to exploration of spiritual growth after homicide.…”

Section: Resilience Transformational Change and Spiritual Growth Afmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Homicide survivors often turn to spirituality as they process the murders of their loved ones (Bailey, Akhtar, Clarke, & Starr, 2015;Bailey, Hannays-King, Clarke, Lester, & Velasco, 2013;Burke et al, 2011). Meanwhile, use of spirituality to make sense of the loss has been associated with spiritual change (SC; Wortmann & Park, 2008).…”

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A Grounded Theory of the Process of Spiritual Change Among Homicide Survivors

Johnson

Zitzmann

2018

Omega (Westport)

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Grounded theory was used to generate a mid-range theory of the process of spiritual change in the lives of survivors of homicide victims. Theoretical sampling guided the selection of 30 participants from a larger study of spiritual change after homicide ( N = 112). Individual interviews were analyzed using a four-step sequence of line-by-line, focused, axial, and selective coding. Analysis generated a closed theory consisting of three fluids, consecutive but nonlinear stages. Each stage consisted of an overarching process and a state of being in the world: (a) Disintegrating: living in a state of shock; (b) Reckoning: living in a state of stagnation; (c) Recreating and reintegrating the self: living in a state of renewal. Movement through the stages was fueled by processes of spiritual connection that yielded changes that permeated the theory. Findings can be used to help practitioners address the processes that drive spiritual change in the lives of homicide survivors.

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confidence: 77%

Section: Resilience Transformational Change and Spiritual Growth Afmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resilience Transformational Change and Spiritual Growth Afmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Grounded Theory of the Process of Spiritual Change Among Homicide Survivors

Johnson

Zitzmann

2018

Omega (Westport)

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“…In addition, immigrant and Latinx communities face simultaneous oppressions through cultural racism and anti‐immigrant policies such as deportations (Santacrose et al, 2021). Qualitative research has found that for family members of gun violence victims, structural issues of racism, poverty, and underfunded communities are inextricably intertwined with the death of their loved ones (Bailey et al, 2015). Black and Latinx youth organizers address these intersecting issues in their gun violence prevention work (Carney, 2016; Frattaroli, 2003).…”

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“We been dying, and you got me on a call helping you stay alive”: Black and Latinx youth organizers' experiences of racism in gun violence prevention organizations

Wilf,

Reed,

Millet

et al. 2023

J of Research on Adolesc

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This study explored Black and Latinx youth organizers' experiences of racism within national gun violence prevention organizing spaces. Interview data were analyzed from 17 Black and/or Latinx youth (Mage = 20.17, 47% women) across the United States who organized against gun violence. The findings identified three forms of racism that Black and Latinx organizers experienced in national organizations: (1) being tokenized for their racial identities and experiences without having real decision making power; (2) feeling a burden to educate their white peers about the structural causes of gun violence and how to improve organizing spaces for other youth of color; and (3) being silenced in their racially conscious organizing efforts to address the structural causes of gun violence in their communities. This research highlights how Black and Latinx youth gun violence prevention organizers contend both with structural racism in their everyday lives and racism in organizing spaces.

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