Michelle Harris

University at Albany, The State University of New York | UAlbany · Cancer Research Center

This qualitative study explores Black Americans’ social emotional responses after viewing race-related discriminatory content on social media. Perceptions held by fifteen respondents regarding the effects of viewing race-based discriminatory content on social media were evaluated. Three key themes emerged from the findings: 1) Shared recognition as...

The use of a Black feminist therapeutic perspective represents an intellectual and practical effort to use racial consciousness to place the authentic reality of Black women at the center of the therapeutic process. From this space, participants formulate the therapeutic assessment, treatment plan, and goals. The ethos of therapy is shaped toward o...

This paper investigates the ways in which Indigenous Australians respond individually, and collectively, to racial vilification by means of social media sites. Introducing the concept of “shared recognition” this paper describes the collective sense of anger and frustration experienced by Indigenous people when traumatic events in the public domain...

Because of their physicality, faculty-of-color who are visible minorities are imagined, in part, to represent an important aspect of social justice, i.e., inclusion and representation. Students may also assume that issues of social justice are more important to faculty-of-color than to their White counterparts. These professors, regardless of disci...

Indigenous Studies is a rapidly growing field of enquiry both nationally and internationally. The internationalisation of the discipline is dependent on its interdiciplinarity and on the collaborative efforts of interdisciplinary scholars. Colonised Indigenous people globally share similar experiences despite differences in histories and contexts....

Universities in Australia are expanding their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies programs to include Indigenous populations from around the globe. This is also the case for the Indigenous Studies Unit at the University of Wollongong (UOW). Although systems of nomenclature in Indigenous Studies seek to be respectful of difference, the pol...

As a bourgeoning and widely recognized critical-emancipationist program, critical race theory (CRT) retains its commitment to treating the social construction of race as central to the way that people of color are ordered and constrained in society. In advocating for justice for such 'minority' populations as Blacks, Latinos, Asians, gays, Indians,...

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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between acculturation and mental health from a life stress perspective. This study assumes that the process of adaptation/acculturation creates a social context for immigrants that is inherently challenging to their individual psyches. Three primary hypotheses were investigated. First, it was...

This chapter provides an overview of the mental health status for each minority population in the US and evaluates the available scientific evidence of racial variations in mental health. Because of different research methodologies and varying criteria for identifying both mental disorder and minority status, it is difficult to generalize about the...