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Whose poverty is it? An Autoethnography: An autoethnography
No full textWhen I first met my husband, he told me, “I have nothing, I do not have money or many possessions.” When he said he had nothing, he literally meant it: no savings, no house, no bank account, no retirement plans, and a job that hardly paid for one meal a day. His most precious possessions were a bicycle and the toolbox he used as a mechanic. He lived with his mom, sister, and two nieces in a one-bedroom self-contained unit they rented. In this autoethnography, I write about my epiphany that stemmed from being married to a Ghanaian man who lived in poverty as we consider it in the West. I use a community cultural wealth model to tell about my transformation related to my understanding of poverty.
Amplifying Voices: Five Approaches to Constructing Counternarratives that explore the African American Experience in the Workplace
No full textResearch suggests that African-American employees are being treated as if they do not matter in the American workplace, and that anti-Black racism continues to abound in many organizations. The current article will help address a gap in the literature by illustrating how the examination of African Americans\u27 narratives will provide vital insight into how HRD practice can be advanced to combat workplace racism by understanding the importance of counterstorytelling. This research has important implications for adult education because better understandings of how anti-Blackness manifests in the workplace are essential to human resource development\u27s ongoing efforts to combat racism and other forms of injustice in the workplace
In the Shadow of the Great White Way: Images from the Black Theatre: none
No full textProfessor Hugo Fernandez discusses his discovery of a body of photographs documenting the Black Theater. His research leads him to the story of an African American photographer who dedicated his life to preserving the history of the Black Theater, overcoming professional tragedy, publishing a compilation of the work before his untimely death
Crossroads
Get PDFSouth Asian Dance Studies has emerged as an international site for critical debates about various intersections of identity, power, media, and globalization. This multidisciplinary academic space is also a site for the intersections of theory and praxis/practice, criticality, and creativity. Yet, this arrival of South Asian Dance Studies is happening in a world daunted by political polarization and authoritarianism, inequalities deepened due to the pandemic, wars, refugee and environmental crises, a severe economic and political breakdown in Sri Lanka, and the changing political atmosphere in India—filled with instability, violence and divisive identity politics.
Writing about dance and its history, or even its relevance, needs new methodological frameworks that, at once, give us the ability to speak from within as well as outside. This changing scenario requires the placing of dance within the framework of intersectionality as a survival strategy against the totalitarian reframing of ideas of culture, history, gender, class, caste, human rights and the politics of assertive and often violent marginalizations. Although not directly connected to any of these issues, the three essays below are situated within these discursive spaces that we are calling crossroads. We envision them as sites for interventions
Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) before age 3: Evidence for the Family Map Inventory
Get PDFThis study examined a web-based assessment of adverse childhood experiences (eFMI-ACE) of children birth to 3 years-of-age using the Family Map Inventory (FMI-ACE) conducted by early childhood education (ECE) program staff. The paper version of FMI-ACE (pFMI-ACE) is a validated tool to screen ACEs among children birth to 5 years-of-age enrolled in home visiting programs. In this study, parents of children (N=1,591) enrolled in Early Head Start (EHS) between August 2018 and July 2020 were interviewed using the electronically formatted Family Map Inventory (FMI). The EHS providers interviewed parents through the FMI online system as part of their program family assessments. Analyses mirrored the pFMI-ACE validation study to confirm the fidelity of electric assessment of the FMI-ACE (eFMI-ACE). Further analyses examined the change in the eFMI-ACE responses in programs that interviewed families twice during EHS program participation. The eFMI-ACE score, like the validation study, was negatively associated with parental warmth and had a similar distribution. After a minimum 90 days of EHS services (M = 186, SD = 60; range 91-448), eFMI-ACE scores were statistically significantly reduced. The family-friendly screen for risk of ACEs functions similarly in electronic and paper administration and for children birth to 3 years-of-age. It showed small but statistically significant reductions after EHS services
Head Start Parents’ Views on Family-Centered Care: A Research to Practice Summary
Get PDFThis study looked at components of Head Start parent-teacher relationships: teachers’ knowledge and use of family-centered practices. Specifically, the purpose of the research was to examine the perspective of Head Start parents and to better understand their classroom experiences as they relate to family-centered care. Family-centered classroom practices and family-specific knowledge are two important components of developing effective parent-teacher relationships. The study used a national sample of Head Start teachers and parents. Results suggest that parents and teachers tend to agree consistently on their perceptions of family-centered practices and responsiveness, across a variety of classroom settings. These results point to the importance of continuing to support teachers’ professional and family-specific substantive knowledge in order to promote positive relationships with families
The Evidence Base for How and Why Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultations Works
Get PDFInfant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) is an evidence-based service in which consultants build capacity for early childhood professionals and programs to promote the social-emotional development of infants and young children. This paper describes the current state of the evidence for IECMHC, mapping the evidence to a new theory of change from the Center of Excellence (CoE) for IECMHC. There is a substantial literature base regarding the effects of consultation on outcomes for infants and young children; yet the evidence for consultation’s specific mechanisms of change, moderators of impact, and reductions in disparities have been understudied. The authors identify gaps in the scholarly literature, articulate next steps for research, and conclude with a call to action for IECMHC researchers to expand rigorous studies to the range of settings in which IECMHC is implemented and to center social justice in the research questions, methods, and dissemination
Black Faces in White Spaces: Reflections on Racism and Being a Black Women in Higher Education in the Deep South
Get PDFBlack women have long served as the glue that binds families and communities together. They do not miss a beat in meeting expectations like showing up to work every day and making an effort not to be referred to as "angry black women." However, Black women are frequently marginalized, ignored, and silenced in several contexts, including higher education. This reflection article by a southern Black female higher education professional takes you on a journey of self-discovery and growth as she utilizes a Black feminist perspective to discuss how her willingness to push boundaries is influenced by her deep south upbringing and her lived racialized experiences working at a Southern Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
Educate, Empower, Encourage: Wash Day
Get PDFEducate, Empower, Encourage: Wash Day is a flat lay photograph that seeks to promote equity among Eurocentric likeness in historically white spaces and increase representation of Black women with natural hair. The image attempts to illustrate the similarities between the tools used for “wash day” and the tools used to eradicate natural hair discrimination. Both require a variety of processes unique in their makeup and services to achieve the desired goal.