Poetic Expressions: Students of Color Express Resiliency Through Metaphors and Similes

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Poetic Expressions: Students of Color Express Resiliency Through Metaphors and Similes

Horace R. Hall¹•Institutions (1)

DePaul University¹

01 Feb 2007-Journal of Advanced Academics (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 18, Iss: 2, pp 216-244

TL;DR: The after-school City School Outreach youth program captured the attention of high school male students by offering them a physically and psychologically safe environment to talk about issues they faced as mentioned in this paper.

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Abstract: The after-school City School Outreach youth program captured the attention of high school male students by offering them a physically and psychologically safe environment to talk about issues they faced. The students of color who attended the program used various forms of creative written expression (i.e., poetry, spoken word, and hip hop) to document and share their lived realities as African American and Latino youth. An analysis of their writings and subsequent interviews revealed a variety of coping strategies and resources that these resilient adolescent males of color used to transcend adversity in their environment. When adolescent males of color have a strong sense of cultural pride and awareness, they are able to construct a healthy self-concept that assists them in acts of agency and resistance against negative psychological forces in their environment. These students used familial and nonfamilial support mechanisms, such as peers, church, and mentors, to assist them in reducing the stressful im...

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01 Jan 2013

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Federal Accountability And Compliance: The Need To Build Ethical Resiliency Within Current And Future Educational Leaders

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Examining Adolescent Identity Formation Processes in Immersion Semester High Schools

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Lisa Meerts-Brandsma¹, Jim Sibthorp²•Institutions (2)

Weber State University¹, University of Utah²

25 Jun 2021-Identity

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...Overall, the ability to think about and reflect upon experiences seems to be an essential component of identity formation because it helps people understand themselves, their feelings, and their motivations, and can also help people understand their position within sociocultural contexts (Choi, 2009; Hall, 2007; Hardee & Reyelt, 2009; Harrell-Levy & Kerpelman, 2010)....
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...…to be an essential component of identity formation because it helps people understand themselves, their feelings, and their motivations, and can also help people understand their position within sociocultural contexts (Choi, 2009; Hall, 2007; Hardee & Reyelt, 2009; Harrell-Levy & Kerpelman, 2010)....
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“After a Trip, the Suitcase Stays Full till I Need Something”: Unpacking Narrative Truths from the Field

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Chestin T. Auzenne-Curl

20 Sep 2021

TL;DR: The authors trace instances of meaning-making through fragments of two interviews, using restorying and the construction of parallel stories to interpret resonances across the participants' stories and my own stories of experience.

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Abstract: In this chapter, I trace instances of meaning-making through fragments of two interviews. Using restorying and the construction of parallel stories to interpret resonances across the participants' stories and my own stories of experience, I draw strong personal connections with elements of each semi-structured interview. In a revisitation of the narrative threads of identity, community, and change, the image of Black women as literacy educators who co-construct meaning in and out of the classroom is rendered.

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An Exploration of Whiteness, Resilience, and Dance/Movement Therapy

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Quimbay Nolasco, Sharon Elizabeth

01 Jan 2019

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review on whiteness, specifically how it is defined within society, embodiment and how to utilize Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT), resilience and how it affects people of color.

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Abstract: This literature review is a thorough investigation on Whiteness, specifically how it is defined within society, embodiment and how to utilize Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT), resilience and how it affects people of color. It will address how Whiteness is a vast and highly researched topic, and this paper aims to build ground for future work both within counseling professions and Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT). The entirety of this paper discusses whiteness and how it affects various aspects of an individual’s life, as well as the resiliency demonstrated by those who rise up beyond their experienced oppression. When defining Whiteness, careful consideration must be made so it remains complex enough to carry the intersectional identities affected by it. This paper analyzes the literature on Whiteness and aims to discuss how resilience is held by most people of color. Additionally, this thesis discusses how DMT is striving to use more inclusive practices, and suggests how DMT can be used to build empowerment and resilience through the use of its embodied practices. WHITENESS, RESILIENCE, AND DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY 3 An Exploration of Whiteness, Resilience, and Dance/Movement Therapy

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...Hall (2007) discusses differences in definitions of resilience across culture, ethnicity, gender, age, and socioeconomic status....
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...Hall (2007) suggests families of color should explore resiliency through three central lenses: individual, family, and community....
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...The author further describes that three levels all interconnect and serve as support and protection for the developing youth, as well as their families (Hall, 2007)....
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...Hall (2007) explained how families of color can look at resilience through the three-lens of individual, family and community....
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...A white person trying to embody ‘coolness’ may be viewed by their community as entitled, while a person of color doing the same could secure safety for themselves in oppressive situation (Hall, 2007)....
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Identity, youth, and crisis

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Erik H. Erikson

01 Jan 1968

TL;DR: Erikson as mentioned in this paper describes a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the inner space of the communal culture, and discusses the connection between individual struggles and social order.

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Abstract: Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the core of the communal culture. As the culture changes, new kinds of identity questions arise-Erikson comments, for example, on issues of social protest and changing gender roles that were particular to the 1960s. Representing two decades of groundbreaking work, the essays are not so much a systematic formulation of theory as an evolving report that is both clinical and theoretical. The subjects range from "creative confusion" in two famous lives-the dramatist George Bernard Shaw and the philosopher William James-to the connection between individual struggles and social order. "Race and the Wider Identity" and the controversial "Womanhood and the Inner Space" are included in the collection.

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Identity: Youth and Crisis

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Ivan Fras

01 Jul 1968-Psychosomatics

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"Poetic Expressions: Students of Col..." refers background in this paper

...From a psychosocial perspective, adolescents are engaged in a conscious and unconscious search for an autonomous identity as they seek to understand their social roles in life (Erikson, 1968; Marcia, 1980)....
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Black students' school success: Coping with the “burden of ‘acting white’”

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Signithia Fordham¹, John U. Ogbu²•Institutions (2)

University of the District of Columbia¹, University of California, Berkeley²

01 Sep 1986-The Urban Review

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for understanding how a sense of collective identity enters into the process of schooling and affects academic achievement is proposed, showing how the fear of being accused of "acting white" causes a social and psychological situation which diminishes black students' academic effort and thus leads to underachievement.

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Abstract: The authors review their previous explanation of black students' underachievement. They now suggest the importance of considering black people's expressive responses to their historical status and experience in America. “Fictive kinship” is proposed as a framework for understanding how a sense of collective identity enters into the process of schooling and affects academic achievement. The authors support their argument with ethnographic data from a high school in Washington, D.C., showing how the fear of being accused of “acting white” causes a social and psychological situation which diminishes black students' academic effort and thus leads to underachievement. Policy and programmatic implications are discussed.

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...Even though there is an abundance of work that focuses on why youth of color either fail or succeed academically (Cammarota, 2004; Conchas, 2001; Fordham & Ogbu, 1986; Juarez, 1996; Majors & Billson, 1992; Osborne, 2001), there is little research that concentrates on the dynamics that build…...
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TL;DR: The study of and interest in adolescence in the field of psychology and related fields continues to grow, necessitating an expanded revision of this seminal work as discussed by the authors, with contributions from the leading researchers.

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Abstract: The study of and interest in adolescence in the field of psychology and related fields continues to grow, necessitating an expanded revision of this seminal work. This multidisciplinary handbook, edited by the premier scholars in the field, Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg, and with contributions from the leading researchers, reflects the latest empirical work and growth in the field.

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Beverly Daniels Tatum

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TL;DR: A definition of terms Defining Racism can be found in this paper, where the Complexity of Identity and Affirmative Action are defined. But there is more than just Black and White, you know.

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Abstract: Introduction A Definition of Terms Defining RacismCan we talk? The Complexity of IdentityWho am I? Understanding Blackness In A White Context The Early YearsIs my skin brown because I drink chocolate milk? Identity Development in AdolescenceWhy are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? Racial Identity in AdulthoodStill a work in progress Understanding Whiteness In a White Context The Development of White IdentityIm not ethnic, Im just normal. White Identity and Affirmative ActionIm in favor of affirmative action except when it comes to my jobs. Beyond Black and White Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity DevelopmentTheres more than just Black and White, you know. Identity Development in Multiracial FamiliesBut dont the children suffer? Breaking The Silence Embracing a Cross-Racial DialogueWe were struggling for the words.

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