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Purpose Given that the relationships between higher BMI and adverse health outcomes are nonconstant and most pronounced at either ends of the BMI distribution, we assess the association between neighborhood poverty and BMI at multiple points along the BMI distribution. Methods Using data from the 1999 to 2015 Panel Study of Income Dynamics of Black and White adults in the United States, we estimate quantile regression models while jointly applying a marginal structural modeling approach to account for time-varying individual-level factors that may be simultaneously mediators as well as confounders. Results Neighborhood poverty was not found to be associated with bodyweight at any point along the BMI distribution for Black or White males. However, high neighborhood poverty, compared to low neighborhood poverty, predicted increases in bodyweight for Black females at the lower end of the BMI distribution and for White females at the higher end of the BMI distribution. No association was found between neighborhood poverty and BMI at the mean. Conclusions Results identify the most vulnerable subgroups, suggesting that White females at the higher end of the BMI distribution as well as Black females at the lower end of the BMI distribution are particularly sensitive to obesogenic environments.

In Haile Gerima's Sankofa (1993), a film that confronts the horrors of slavery, sexual violence is a central and repetitive trope. In this article, I explore how Gerima employs representations of rape as a filmic strategy to expose the brutality of slavery and its aftermath as well as to illustrate the magnitude of Black women's tenacity in the face of subjugation. I argue that, while the visual repetition of the white male slaveholder's sexual violation of the Black female body is a dangerously problematic trope, Gerima's film reenacts the terrible banality of sexual exploitation of the enslaved and significantly performs a conscious objectification to make visible the history of white supremacist violence and Black women's nuanced and complex forms of survival, resistance, and fugitivity.

The study examines racial differences in crime victimization rates among Black, Hispanic and White individuals during the stay-at-home order in Dallas city, TX. The study is based on sample of 85,958 calls for service recorded by Dallas Police Department between February 13, 2019, and April 30, 2020, where victims have been identified and their race is known. The findings suggest that Blacks were less likely to experience unintended drop in crime rates during the lockdown and also less likely to see decline in crimes against property when compared to both White and Hispanic victims. At the same time Blacks were more likely to experience increase in crimes committed at the apartments during the lockdown with Black females experiencing higher increase than Black males. There were no differences in crime victimization for incidents occurred in public places and crimes against persons.

In The Growth of Incarceration in the United States, the National Research Council documents the large and persistent racial disparities in imprisonment that accompanied the more than quadrupling of the U.S. incarceration rate since the 1980s. Largely unnoticed by policy makers and opinion leaders in recent years is an unprecedented decrease in the number of African American women incarcerated at the same time that the number of white women in prison has grown to new heights. The result of these recent changes is a near convergence in black-white female incarceration rates from 2000 to 2016. In some states, the changes occurred abruptly and almost instantaneously. In other states, the convergence has been gradual. We find that changes in the population composition—the fraction of the population that is black—was the major contributor to the decline in the disparity among women. We also find that race-specific differences in drug overdose deaths stemming from the recent increases in opioid use lowered the disparity by increasing the white female imprisonment rate and lowering it for black women.

TThere is little known about the experiences of Black women in schools of social work, specifically those situated within research-intensive (R-1) Carnegie-designated institutions. Experiences of imposter syndrome and authenticity often result in negative experiences and poor professional outcomes for Black women in academia. This study explores Black women social work faculty members’ sense of self through the prisms of imposter syndrome and authenticity. Social work is of particular interest in that it espouses a code of ethics and core values of service that if applied to the cultures within these schools, Black women may have more equitable experiences. This article presents qualitative findings from nine in-depth interviews with Black women faculty members at R-1 universities. Findings revealed that Black women faculty member’s experiences of imposter syndrome impacted many facets of their professional experiences from moments of paralysis to potentially unhealthy over-productivity. Findings also highlight Black women faculty members’ concerns around their colleagues’ professional and personal perceptions of them and this often prevented these women from presenting their authentic selves in academic settings. Despite these barriers, some women chose to remain authentic regardless of possible backlash in refusing to assimilate into the dominant White culture. Black women scholars cannot survive and thrive in social work education unless institutions build trust with these women by respecting their diverse backgrounds, race-related research interests, and range of methodology.

The cinematographic narrative it is characterized, among other aspects, for the intertwining among different languages, such as music, sound elements, verbal and non-verbal texts, what makes, in turn, the filmic plot endowed with its own language, addressing and problematizing social, cultural, historical and political themes. In this sense, this essay investigates the representation of black female characters in the film, Filhas do Vento (2004), the first feature film by Joel Zito Araujo, a filmmaker from Minas Gerais (BR). This aim was outlined from the following problem: How are the female characters represented in the work? Hypothetically, it is believed that the modes of representation of the black woman, in the current work under analysis, sometimes subverts the stereotypes crystallized about her, sometimes ends up reproducing them, reinforcing them. Therefore, the structure of the discussions permeates the considerations about the seventh art and its characterization in Martin (2013), Aumont (1995); as well, the New Brazilian Cinema, with propositions by Gomes (1980), Ramos (2000), Xavier (1983); and Black Cinema, for the ideas proposed in Prudente (2018, 2019), Rocha (1963); despite the representation and images of black subjects, it is anchored in Hooks (2019), Hall (2016), among others. In the film under analysis, the filmmaker problematizes that, while seeking to demystify stereotypes, it is revealed that the media, in a way, masks the protagonism of these women, masking, denying the existence of the paradigms that structure the relations between whites and blacks.

The My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Challenge developed by President Obama supports communities that promote civic initiatives designed to improve the educational and economic opportunities specifically for young men of color. In Oakland, California, the MBK educational initiative features the African American Male Achievement (AAMA) program. The AAMA focuses on regularly scheduled classes exclusively for Black, male students and taught by Black, male teachers who focus on social-emotional training, African-American history, culturally relevant pedagogy, and academic supports. In this study, we present quasi-experimental evidence on the dropout effects of the AAMA by leveraging its staggered scale-up across high schools in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). We find that AAMA availability led to a significant reduction in the number of Black males who dropped out as well as smaller reductions among Black females, particularly in 9th grade.

Leveraging the momentum of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements as a call for change, this piece focuses on how middle grades communities can better support and protect their Black female stu...

Esse trabalho, um recorte da dissertação de mestrado intitulada CONTORNOS NEGROS: representações, limites e fluxos das personagens femininas negras na obra Mulher Mat(r)iz, de Miriam Alves (2021), busca promover algumas reflexões sobre a tessitura alveana na obra Mulher Mat(r)iz (2011), refletindo sobre as (des)construções e as novas representatividades apresentadas por Miriam Alves ao longo de suas narrativas. Debruçados sobre alguns importantes teóricos, tais como Césaire (2010), Fanon (1980), Meneses (2010), refletimos as nuances das violências que são vivenciadas pelas personagens alveanas, especialmente por “Zinho”, que protagoniza o conto Brincadeira, narrativa na qual mergulhamos e refletimos ao longo do presente estudo.

OBJECTIVES: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized in part by negative alterations of cognition or mood, including alterations in emotional expressivity, or the extent to which one outwardly displays emotions. Yet, research in this area has relied on predominantly White samples and neglected to consider the potential role of gender, despite there being demonstrated gender differences in both PTSD symptom severity and emotional expressivity, separately. The goal of the current study was to fill a critical gap in the literature by examining the moderating role of gender in the relation between PTSD symptom severity and emotional expressivity in a sample of trauma-exposed Black adults. METHODS: Participants were 207 Black individuals enrolled in a historically Black university in the Southern United States (68.6% female; M(age) = 22.32 years). RESULTS: Findings provided support for the moderating role of gender in the association between PTSD symptom severity and emotional expressivity. Specifically, greater PTSD symptom severity was inversely related to emotional expressivity among trauma-exposed Black males and positively associated with emotional expressivity among trauma-exposed Black females. DISCUSSION: These results suggest the potential need for gender-specific assessment and treatment techniques for PTSD symptom severity among trauma-exposed Black college students.

This qualitative study examined the experiences of nine Black female faculty in counselor education. The following themes emerged: Multifaceted Institutional Experiences as Black Faculty, Importanc...

In this transcendental phenomenological investigation, we used qualitative research methodology to explore the mentorship experiences and challenges of Black female doctoral students (N = 10). The ...

This exploratory study examined factors potentially associated with graduation for White and Black female Drug Treatment Court participants. Multiple logistic regression models for predicting program graduation were employed using an administrative data set ( N = 1,093). Race was significant in a combined model. Age, prior felonies, employment, and negative peer associations predicted graduation for White women, whereas negative peer associations was the only predictor of graduation for Black women. Consideration of other factors that are not typically collected through administrative screenings is needed to better understand the strains typically experienced by Black women in Drug Treatment Court.