A Postmodern Perspective on Black Suicides in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2168317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert O Washington, Larcy D Mccarley |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 225-242 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1091-1359 • E-ISSN: 1540-3556 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10911359.1998.10530794 |
| OpenAlex | W2044960412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper offers an alternative explanation to the rationalist perspective of black suicides in the United States. It assumes a deconstructionist approach, offering the proposition that the social construction of reality in the black community is such that suicide among blacks occurs at a far greater number than their quantitative measures reveal. The postmodern turn is far more interpretive in placing the reality of black suicide in context than the modernist language of Durkheim and others. The postmodern turn suggests that there is more to black suicides in the United States than meets the eye-more, in that the word, suicide, carries “traces” of other words and texts. Social workers, as enablers and facilitators, must grasp the significance of this social reconstruction if they are to have an impact upon the intertextual nature of black suicides
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Postmodernism · Proposition · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Gender Studies · History
Social Structure and Personality
Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
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Suicide, Gender, and the Fear of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Medical and Social Thought
The Decomposition of Sociology
Social Theory and Social Structure
The Division of Labour in Society
A Theory of Status Integration and Its Relationship to Suicide
On Assessing the Theory of Status Integration and Suicide
Urbanization, Technology, and the Division of Labor
The Cult of True Womanhood
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
Suicidal Behavior among African American College Students
Status Integration and Suicide in Ceylon
It's a white thing
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2004 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |