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247 p., Describes how black Cubans experience racism on two levels. Cuban racism might result in less access for black Cubans to their group's resources, including protection within Cuban enclaves from society-wide discrimination. In society at large, black Cubans are below white Cubans on every socioeconomic indicator. Rejected by their white co-ethnics, black Cubans are welcomed by other groups of African descent. Many hold similar political views as African Americans. Identifying with African Americans neither negatively affects social mobility nor leads to a rejection of mainstream values and norms.
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Originally presented as the author's (Luiz Silva's) thesis (doctoral)--Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2005., 294 p, Cruz e Souza and Lima Barreto works evince similar strategies to face historical circumstantial challenges relevant to the end of the 19th Century. Concerning the racial exclusion processes enrooted in the preceding centuries due to slavery, the authors developed the collective trauma consciousness and its further consequences on daily lives within the poetical and fictional areas.
The mental health needs of African and Caribbean men is an area for public concern. A substantial body of research shows that these groups are disproportionately represented in mental health statistics. Eradicating the disparities in mental health treatment and outcomes for Black people requires changes in how these communities are viewed. Making services more humane at the interpersonal level is deeply important. Mental health services should build positive working relationships with black men and engage with the ideals they have of themselves.
Analyzes the situation of English-speaking African-Caribbeans in Canada as they strive to attain upward social & economic mobility. Census data, 1981-2007, and qualitative data obtained during 2004-2007 interviews with 90 African-Caribbeans living in Halifax, Toronto, and Calgary are drawn on to explored their employment and education experiences, along with perceptions of racism and how it has impacted their opportunities, health, and well-being.
203 p., This research sterns from twelve months of ethnographic research with Haitian migrant women who reside in Batey Sol , a former sugar-company labor camp located along the Línea Noroeste (northwest line) linking the Dominican Rebulic's border town of Dajabón with the urban center of Santiago. The multi-sited study considers the larger network of political, social, and economic structures and relations of power in which these women are positioned in their daily lives and through their livelihoods as market women.
Paula,Marilene de (Author), Heringer,Rosana (Author), and Arruti,José Maurício A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: Heinrich Böll Stiftung : Actionaid
Location:
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292 p., Contents: Evolução e contexto atual das políticas públicas no Brasil : educação, desigualdade e reconhecimento / Valter Roberto Silvério -- Limites e possibilidades da implementação da lei 10.639/03 no contexto das políticas públicas em educação / Nilma Lino Gomes -- Políticas públicas para quilombos : terra, saúde e educação / José Maurício Arruti -- Mulheres negras brasileiras e os resultados de Durban / Jurema Werneck -- Análise das principais políticas de inclusão de estudantes negros no ensino superior no Brasil no período 2001-2008 / Rosana Heringer e Renato Ferreira -- Direitos, cidadania e reparações pelos erros do passado escravista : perspectivas do movimento negro no Brasil / Francine Saillant -- Política negra e democracia no Brasil contemporâneo : reflexões sobre os movimentos negros / Marcio André de O. dos Santos -- Construção e desconstrução do silêncio : reflexões sobre o racismo e o antirracismo na sociedade brasileira / Átila Roque -- Negro drama / Silvia Ramos.
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.
