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    Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Publication Year 2009 Subject Term United Kingdom

    1. Dissociation in Black or Black-British people of African and African-Caribbean descent in the United Kingdom

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    De Maynard,V. A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    ME Sharpe
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    International Journal of Mental Health
    Journal Title Details:
    38(2) : 37-73
    Notes:
    Visibly black people of African and African-Caribbean descent (black people) are 2-5 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses than their counterparts from other ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom. However, the symptomology of psychotic illnesses and dissociative experiences are difficult to differentiate. Interestingly, black people detained under the Mental Health Act are more likely to give perceived racism as the cause of their emotional distress than their counterparts from other ethnic groups, but there is very little indication in the literature as to how perceived racism might exert its effect on black people's mental health.

    2. Masculinities and vulnerability: the solitary discourses and practices of African-Caribbean and white working-class fathers

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Williams,Robert (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Men and masculinities
    Journal Title Details:
    11(4) : 441-461
    Notes:
    The links between social connectedness and the health experiences of men have been a neglected focus for research. Findings indicate that African-Caribbean and white working-class fathers, in the United Kingdom, were involved in solitary ways of feeling, thinking, and acting to deal with the vulnerability associated with health concerns, the psychological experience of stress, and difficulties in personal relationships. Those solitary experiences were associated, within men's stories, with conservative and complicit forms of masculinity.

    3. Slippery Segregation: Discovering or Manufacturing Ghettos?

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Peach,Ceri (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2009 Nov
    Published:
    Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    35(9) : 1381-1395
    Notes:
    Controversy exploded in 2005 over a paper at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers which claimed that ethnic segregation in Britain was increasing, ghettos had formed and some British cities were more segregated than Chicago. The paper asserted that indexes failed to measure segregation and should be abandoned in favour of a threshold schema of concentrations using raw data. These assertions were repeated by Trevor Phillips, Director the Commission for Racial Equality, in an inflammatory speech claiming that Britain was sleepwalking into American-style segregation. The argument of this paper is that the index approach is indeed necessary, that ethnic segregation in Britain is decreasing, that the threshold criteria for the claim that British ghettos exist has manufactured ghettos rather than discovered them. A Pakistani ghetto under the schema could be 40 per cent Pakistani, 30 per cent White, 20 per cent Indian and 10 per cent Caribbean. In 2000, 60 per cent of Chicago's Blacks lived in a true ghetto of tracts that were 90-100 per cent Black. Adapted from the source document.