Pulling Together: How African American Couples Manage Social Inequalities

Cowdery, Randi S.; Scarborough, Norma; Lewis, Monique E.; Seshadri, Gita

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“…A few studies have focused specifically on ways in which racism exposure affects Black couples' marital relationship, stability, and quality (Bryant et al, 2010;Murry et al, 2008). Cowdery, Normascarborough, and Seshadri (2009) noted that as husbands' reports of race-related exposures increased, their wives engaged in more partner-protective behaviors. These demonstrative behaviors came at a cost to wives, diminishing their marital relational power.…”

Section: Racism: a Mundane Social Structural Stressormentioning

confidence: 99%

Excavating New Constructs for Family Stress Theories in the Context of Everyday Life Experiences of Black American Families

Murry

Butler‐Barnes

Mayo-Gamble

et al. 2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Much of what happens inside Black families involves spillover effects and consequences of macro‐level stressors. Racism is a major stressor that cascades through Black families' lives, with detrimental consequences for their everyday life experiences. To understand ways in which Black families successfully navigate social, environment, and cultural pressures and constraints, we sought to gain insight into these processes by conducting a systematic, deep excavation, in order to (a) critically examine the adequacy and accuracy of traditional frameworks used to study stress in Black American families, (b) determine whether the studies of stress in Black families in the era of the first Black family in the White House stimulated new areas of research, and (c) advance the field of stress research in general and for Black Americans, in particular, by proposing a heuristic model anchored in a historical, contextual, life‐span perspective, with emphasis on culturally specific strengths‐based coping adaptation.

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Section: Racism: a Mundane Social Structural Stressormentioning

confidence: 99%