Description
Book SynopsisNow more than ever there is a need to focus on Black men's health in higher education and ensure that future practitioners are trained to ethically and culturally serve this historically oppressed community. This textbook provides practical insight and knowledge that prepare students to work with Black men and their families from a strengths-based and social justice lens.
There is a dearth in the literature that discusses the prioritization of Black men’s health within the context of how they are viewed by societal approaches to engage them in research, and health programming aimed at increasing their participation in health services to decrease their morbidity and mortality rates. Much of the extant literature is over 10 years old and doesn't account for social determinants of health, perceptions of health status, as well as social justice implications that can affect the health outcomes of this historically oppressed population including structural and systemic racism as well as police brutality and gun violence.
The book's 13 chapters represent a diversity of thought and perspectives of experts reflective of various disciplines and are organized in four sections:
- Part I - Racial Disparities and Black Men
- Part II - Black Masculinity
- Part III - Black Men in Research
- Part IV - Social Justice Implications for Black Men's Health
Black Men’s Health serves as a core text across multiple disciplines and can be utilized in undergraduate- and graduate-level curriculums. It equips students and educators in social work, nursing, public health, and other helping professions with the knowledge and insight that can be helpful in their future experiences of working with Black men or men from other marginalized racial/ethnic groups and their families/social support systems. Scholars, practitioners, and academics in these disciplines, as well as community-based organizations who provide services to Black men and their families, state agencies, and evaluation firms with shared interests also would find this a useful resource.
Table of ContentsPart I - Racial Disparities and Black Men
Chapter 1 Modern Epidemiological Impacts on Black Men’s Health: Using a Social Justice-Oriented Analysis
Raymond Adams
Chapter 2 Black Men and Healthy Together: Self-Management of Chronic Disease and Behavioral Health
Everlina Sterling, Vanessa Robinson-Dooley, Carol Collard, , and Tyler Collette
Chapter 3 Positionality and Unpacking Current Perspectives on Black Male Health Towards Transformative Action
Brian Culp
Part II - Black Masculinity
Chapter 4 Beyond Moving the Ball in Youth Sports: Making the Case for Mental Health for Black Youth
Vanessa Robinson-Dooley
Chapter 5 The Psychological Colonization of Black Masculinity: Decolonizing Mainstream Psychology for White Allies Working in Mental Health with Black Men
Hans Skott-Myhre and Kathleen Skott-Myhre
Chapter 6 Black Masculinity Remixed
Troy Harden and John Zeigler
Chapter 7 Building a Movement with Black Men: Culture Is the Key
Jerry Watson and Gregory Washington
Part III - Black Men in Research
Chapter 8 Asserting Voice: Navigating Service Delivery and Community Resources
Jennifer A. Wade-Berg
Chapter 9 “The Talk” Revisited: Expanding the Conversation with Black Males in Trauma
Kara Beckett
Chapter 10 Innovative Strategies to Engage Black Men in Research
Quienton L. Nichols
Part IV - Social Justice Implications for Black Men's Health
Chapter 11 Social Justice and Black Men’s Health
Shonda K. Lawrence, Jerry Watson, Kristie Lipford, Nathaniel Currie, and Malik Cooper
Chapter 12 Advocacy, Politics, and the Sporting World’s Response to Racial Unrest
Dewey M. Clayton, Sharon D. Jones-Eversley and Sharon E. Moore
Chapter 13 Social Justice Implications for Black Men’s Health: Policing Black Bodies
Michael A. Robinson
