Environmental Stress and African Americans: The Other Side of the Moon

by Grace Carroll

Overview

Carroll contends that race is brought to the consciousness of African Americans every day through interaction with employers, service providers, landlords, the police, and the media, and examines the stress experienced by blacks merely as a result of being African American.

Micro-aggressions include experiences such as being denied service, being falsely accused, being negatively singled out on account of one's race. The author labels the stress that results from such micro-aggressions as Mundane Extreme Environmental Stress—which she says is a daily experience, has a significant impact on one's psychological well being and world view, is environmentally induced, and is detracting and energy consuming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275959296
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

GRACE CARROLL is Academic Coordinator for African American Student Development, University of California, Berkeley. She has written extensively on stress and African American life.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Chester M. Pierce
Preface
Introduction: African Americans and Mundane Environmental Stress
Of M.E.E.S. and Men: Case Studies of African American Single Fathers
The Flip Side of Teen Mothers: Their Perspectives on Young Fathers
Parenting: Mothers, Magic, M.E.E.S., and Myths
The Challenges of Getting a "Good Education": Black Students on White Campuses
Professional Sisterhood: Standing in Stellar Space
Summary
Afterword by Walter Allen
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Uses an understanding of racism as a mundane extreme environment to discuss the destructive personal effects of racism and ways to combat them, interweaving autobiographical accounts, research, experiences of parents in parenting groups, and poetry. Looks at African American single fathers, teen mothers' perspectives on young fathers, parenting myths and challenges, black students on white campuses, and black professional women. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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