"This study seeks to explore in what ways mental health education serves as the change agent that shifts the emotional coping paradigm of southern minority communities. The purpose of this study was to integrate theoretical and conceptual considerations, which suggest the existence of mental health issues with the southern African American community by exploring in what ways mental health education can serve as a change agent that shifts the emotional...

Through an analysis of the literature on racial identity development within the context of American society, the following paper utilizes the Cross Model of Psychological Nigrescence (1991, 2001) and focus group data to understand how culturally affirmative campus experiences, or "positive encounters, " can support the identity development process for Black students at a predominantly White institution in the southwest. By examining positive and negative...

"How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade,...

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...