Henrie M. Treadwell

Beyond Stereotypes in Black and White (eBook, ePUB)

How Everyday Leaders Can Build Healthier Opportunities for African American Boys and Men

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book spotlights the plight of African American boys and men, examining multiple systems beyond education, incarceration, and employment to assess their impact on the mental and physical health of African American boys and men-and challenges everyday citizens to help start a social transformation.

Beyond Stereotypes in Black and White: How Everyday Leaders Can Build Healthier Opportunities for African American Boys and Men exposes the daily plight of African American boys and men, identifying the social and policy infrastructure that ensnares them in a downward spiral that worsens with each exposure to our system that offers unemployment, low-wage work, marginalization, and incarceration.

The book examines why African American boys and men are more sickly and die younger than any other racial group in the United States, have very few health coverage options, and are consistently incarcerated at rates that are wildly disproportionate to their representation of the U.S. population; and it documents how this tremendous injustice comes with a cost that burdens all groups in American society, not just African Americans. Additionally, the author challenges readers to see that all of us must act individually and collectively to right this social wrong.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216052920
• Artikelnr.: 68333637

Autorenporträt

Henrie M. Treadwell, PhD, is research professor in community health and preventive medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Hear My Voice Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: Losing the
Race Chapter 1: Addressing the Stereotypes Meet Martin and Jamal, fictional
representative African American men who put a face to the crisis. Chapter
2: Communities in Crisis The crisis and how it affects African American
communities, as well as communities of every stripe across the nation.
Chapter 3: Sick and Tired: The Killer Disease of Racism The real impact of
racism on the life opportunities of men and boys of color. Chapter 4: Lost
in Translation: "Access to Care" for Men of Color Whether in the community
or in the prisons, men and boys of color lack the kind of access to health
services that help people live full and healthy lives. Chapter 5: A
Deafening Silence The devastating lack of attention and urgency in the face
of the crisis. How and why silence, indeed, equals death for men and boys
of color. Chapter 6: The Marginalization of Voices for Change
Marginalization of progressive leadership voices serves to keep communities
in crisis. PART TWO: Beyond Blaming the Victim Chapter 7: Brownian Motion
and Dynamic Equilibrium Any approach to opportunities for success must
include a holistic approach to the problem. By advocating for a systems
analysis, we can avoid wasting time and money and invest in real change.
Chapter 8: Feeding the Pipeline Thanks to the "Cradle to Prison Pipeline,"
men of color are disadvantaged from birth. Chapter 9: A Public Policy
Framework An exploration of historic and contemporary public policy
decisions that have led to the crisis and that keep men and boys of color
in crisis. Chapter 10: The Media and African American Boys and Men: Another
Take The central role that the media play in the crisis and how it can help
solve it. Chapter 11: Looking for Real Community Values? Follow the Money
Lack of funding has been identified as a major deterrent for being able to
affect change-how has financial investment helped create the crisis, and
how can it begin to end it? PART THREE: Building Healthier Opportunities
Chapter 12: Leadership Models That Work Leadership can be leveraged to
successfully address the problem using a system-wide approach at every
point in the life cycle. Chapter 13: Opportunities for Success: What You
Can Do and How Concrete steps we can take at every level of leadership to
make real change happen now. Epilogue Appendix Organizations around the
country that are actually making a difference, where you can get more
information or find opportunities to get involved and become a leader
yourself. Index