The “Fragility of Goodness”: Black Parents’ Perspective about Raising Children in Toronto, Winnipeg, and St. John’s of Canada

Adjei, Paul Banahene; Mullings, Delores V.; Baffoe, Michael; Quaicoe, Lloydetta; Abdul-Rahman, Latif; Shears, Victoria; Fitzgerald, Shari

doi:10.1080/15548732.2017.1401575

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“…83 Thus, assessment of parenting becomes premised upon the notion of "whiteness" parenting as the foundation against which all other parenting is compared. 84 There is white and then there is the "other." 85 Levine and Norman show that any sense of agreed upon universality of attachment theory as a concept is blind to cultural variations, perhaps due to the ways in which it was developed:…”

Section: The Issue Of Culture and Attachment Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Racine v Woods from a Decolonizing Perspective: Challenging the Applicability of Attachment Theory to Indigenous Families Involved with Child Protection

Choate¹,

Kohler²,

Cloete³

et al. 2019

Can. j. law soc.

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The 1983 case Racine v Woods is the leading child protection case from the Supreme Court of Canada, distinguishing bonding and/or attachment as a more important determinant of best interest for an Indigenous child than cultural connection. Using this case, courts are upholding the permanent placement of Indigenous children in non-Indigenous homes as opposed to placement within their culture. Racine v Woods reflected knowledge of attachment and family at that time but runs counter to current knowledge. Reconsideration of the factors to decide cross-cultural adoption is needed. The essential point is that attachment assessment draws from a dyadic relational theory and is being applied to communal family systems, such as Indigenous systems. Such a review is consistent with the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as well as its predecessor, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), and recent Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) decisions.

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Section: The Issue Of Culture and Attachment Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Racine v Woods from a Decolonizing Perspective: Challenging the Applicability of Attachment Theory to Indigenous Families Involved with Child Protection

Choate¹,

Kohler²,

Cloete³

et al. 2019

Can. j. law soc.

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“…As shared above, several participants also feared the school would deem them unfit parents and place their child in protective services. Adjei et al (2018) explain:Black children are taught about how to conduct themselves when interacting with people in authority, such as police, teachers, social workers, and other state-sponsored institutions and agencies, because any act of open resistance can be read as a threat that can result in either imprisonment or shooting to death. Unfortunately, this practice of raising Black children within the confines of “racial rules of engagement” in Canada has often been misunderstood as “bad parenting” practices by child welfare agencies, resulting in high level of apprehension and placement into care of Black children.…”

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“…As shared above, several participants also feared the school would deem them unfit parents and place their child in protective services. Adjei et al (2018) explain:…”

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Lies, Denials, and Cover-Ups: The Pervasiveness of Whiteness in School Districts Relations with Black and Racialized Parents

Shah

2022

Urban Education

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This study explores whiteness as property in parent engagement as experienced by Black and racialized parents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on counter-storytelling methodology, we explore the active harm endured by parents who have challenged racist educators, policies, and practices. We also explore how educators uphold whiteness as property (and intersections with “smartness” and “goodness”) through a spectrum of coercive power tactics, such as lies, denials, and cover-ups to protect their power and control at the expense of Black and racialized parents and students.

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“…These thefts from body, self, and community have further implications on their lives as Black people in an anti-Black nation and world. Black parents in the Canadian context often focus parenting on dealing with anti-Black racism (Adjei, Mullings, Baffoe, Quaicoe, Abdul-Rahman, Shears & Fitzgerald, 2018). This includes giving and teaching affirmations and a love for Blackness, navigating anti-Black experiences, and being conscious of the presence of race and racism in situations (2018).…”

Section: Anti-black Racism Slavery's Afterlives and To Metabolize It Allmentioning

confidence: 99%

From topic and evidence to architect: the development of Black diasporic interpretive phenomenology and the resistive strategies of Black child welfare survivors

Lamers¹

2021

Preprint

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This research engaged in the epistemological development from interpretive phenomenology into what is my implemented method of inquiry, which is Black diasporic interpretive phenomenology. This approach grounds itself in Black diasporic thought and the theorizing and work of Black authors, scholars, and activists to understand and describe the sensibilities, intimacies, struggle and resistance of Black people within the diaspora, often stemming from a hyper/invisibility created by the state, society, and institutions (Walcott, 2016). It takes seriously concerns around ethics and care while also being investigative by making connections between our present moment as Black people to the long history of subjugation and our continued fight for freedom. Three Black participants of various identities were engaged to answer the overall research question of “what are the resistive strategies deployed by Black child welfare survivors?” The term Black child welfare survivor refers to Black people who at some point in their lives have been engaged by or taken under state guardianship, or experienced adoption. The methodology used allowed for participants’ narratives to expose the anti-Black racism and continuity of slavery and coloniality in child welfare, as well as the rigourous, sustainable, and effective methods Black child welfare survivors deploy in order to maintain themselves, their families, and their communities. Key words: anti-Black racism, child welfare, resistance, Black diaspora, Black family

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The “Fragility of Goodness”: Black Parents’ Perspective about Raising Children in Toronto, Winnipeg, and St. John’s of Canada

Cited by 19 publications

References 48 publications

Rethinking Racine v Woods from a Decolonizing Perspective: Challenging the Applicability of Attachment Theory to Indigenous Families Involved with Child Protection

Rethinking Racine v Woods from a Decolonizing Perspective: Challenging the Applicability of Attachment Theory to Indigenous Families Involved with Child Protection

Lies, Denials, and Cover-Ups: The Pervasiveness of Whiteness in School Districts Relations with Black and Racialized Parents

From topic and evidence to architect: the development of Black diasporic interpretive phenomenology and the resistive strategies of Black child welfare survivors

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