Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Black"
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Positive adjustment to poverty: how family communities encourage resilience in traditional African contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)In the main, resilience literature explains positive adjustment to adversity in ways that are biased towards western culture. Although studies of resilience among African Americans have reported the importance of kinship, ... -
Toward a culturally and contextually sensitive understanding of resilience: privileging the voices of Black, South African young people
(Sage, 2016)Extant theories of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, privilege the voices of minority-world young people. Consequently, the resilience of marginalized, majority-world youth is imperfectly understood, ...