Risk and the Black American child: representations of children’s mental health issues in three popular African American magazines

Autor:	Donya Mosleh, Juanne N. Clarke
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	African american Oppression Social condition media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Gender studies Mental health Racism Representation (politics) 5. Gender equality Mainstream Sociology Period (music) media_common
Zdroj:	Health, Risk & Society. 17:1-14
ISSN:	1469-8331 1369-8575
DOI:	10.1080/13698575.2014.992865
Popis:	Risks abound with the increasing diseasing of childhood in North America. However, the incidence and meanings and therefore the risk of children’s mental health issues differ in distinctly racialised groups. In this article, we examine the portrayal of the risk of children’s mental health issues in articles published in the three highest circulating African American magazines (Jet, Ebony and Essence) from 1990 to 2012. Based on a qualitative content analysis, we document how the representations of risks of children’s mental health issues are inextricably bound up with racism, inequity and oppression. It is these social conditions that are represented as constituting the chief risk factors for a range of behavioural and emotional difficulties in the lives of Black children. This representation contrasts sharply with that of children’s mental health issues in mainstream magazines during the same time period. It does not reflect their dominant neoliberal or individualising understanding of risk nor the possi...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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