Denise Herd
Biographic Data
| ID | 108907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise Herd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise |
| FAMILY NAME | Herd |
| SIGNATURE | HERD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4938-7096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Covid-19 and the political geography of racialisation: Ethnographic cases in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Detroit
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems around the globe, and intensified the lethality of social and political inequality. In the United States, where public health departments have been severely defunded, Black, Native, Latinx communities and those experiencing poverty in the country's largest cities are disproportionately infected and disproportionately dying. Based on our collective ethnographic work in three global cities in the…
Structural racism in the built environment: Segregation and the overconcentration of alcohol outlets
The Social Environment and Childbearing Expectations: Implications for Strength-Based Sexual Health Interventions for Latino Youth
Community Level Correlates of Low Birthweight Among African American, Hispanic and White Women in California
Conflicting Paradigms on Gender and Sexuality in Rap Music: A Systematic Review
Homies with Aspirations and Positive Peer Network Ties: Associations with Reduced Frequent Substance Use among Gang-Affiliated Latino Youth
Mobilizing for Change: Activism and Alcohol Policy Issues in Inner City Communities
Activists in seven US cities were interviewed about why they thought people in their communities mobilized against alcohol-related problems. The data were analyzed in light of the focus on resource mobilization theory in the social movement literature. In contrast with claims that resources are the primary catalyst for change, informants emphasized the role of grievances, and to a lesser extent, bridging factors that caused residents to be more a…
Strategies Employed by Inner-City Activists to Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems and Advance Social Justice
This study explored strategies employed by activists engaged in efforts to change policies and laws related to selling and promoting alcoholic beverages based on in-depth interviews with 184 social activists in seven U.S. major cities. Nine strategies aimed at improving local conditions and influencing policy were described by activists across regional contexts. Grassroots mobilization was central to all other strategies, which included the creat…
Voices from the Field: The Social Construction of Alcohol Problems in Inner-City Communities
This study examines the social construction of alcohol problems by activists involved in alcohol policy campaigns in inner-city neighborhoods in the 1990s. Nearly 200 informants were interviewed and asked to describe why they thought local neighborhoods mobilized around alcohol policy issues. In contrast with other social movements that have emphasized individual alcohol problem or addiction experiences, informants in this study focused on the ro…
Community Mobilization and the Framing of Alcohol-Related Problems
The goal of this study was to describe how activists engaged in campaigns to change alcohol policies in inner city areas framed alcohol problems, and whether or not their frameworks reflected major models used in the field, such as the alcoholism as a disease model, an alcohol problems perspective, or a public health approach to alcohol problems. The findings showed that activists' models shared some aspects with dominant approaches which tend to…
Changes in drug use prevalence in rap music songs, 1979–1997
This article explores the role of changing images of drug use in rap music from the 1970s to the 1990s. A sample of 341 rap music lyrics were coded for drug mentions, behaviours and contexts; drug attitudes and consequences; and music genres. The results show that from 1979–1997, songs with references to drugs increased over 6-fold; those exhibiting positive attitudes and consequences rose substantially and that references to particular drug type…
Black identity and drinking in the US: A national study
Black identity and drinking in the US: A national study
The relationship between ethnic identity and drinking patterns was explored in 1947 black adults from a nation-wide study of drinking behavior. Factor analysis revealed that a multi-dimensional construct which included four factors-media preferences, socio-political awareness, endogamy and social networks-was necessary to operationalize and measure the concept of ethnic identity. Using structural equation modeling, a model was tested which analyz…
The impact of region and urbanization on African American drinking patterns: Results from a national survey
The Influence of Parental Drinking Attitudes and Behavior on the Drinking Patterns of Black and White Adults
The importance of parents as a source of influence on drinking behaviour has been emphasized in socialization theories which stress the primacy of parent-child relationships and the critical roles parents play as role models and as agents for imparting moral values and normative codes. This study examines parental attitudes and drinking frequency and their effects on the drinking patterns of 1947 black and 1777 white adults. Black respondents rep…
Drinking by Black and White Women: Results from a National Survey
This paper explores whether differences in rates of abstaining and heavier drinking in black and white women can be attributed primarily to differences in socio-economic or marital status. Data for the analysis are based on personal interviews with national probability samples of 1,224 black and 1,034 white women in the United States. The descriptive findings show that blacks are more likely to be abstainers and less likely to be heavier drinkers…
Prohibition, Racism and Class Politics in the Post-Reconstruction South
The virulent racism associated with the southern prohibition movement in the late 19th and early 20th century is practially invisible in literature on the history of alcohol reform movements. This paper explores the rise of racist ideology in the anti-liquor movement and its particular relationship to political factionalism and class conflict in the Post-Reconstruction South. The analysis suggests that the strong role of the anti-liquor movements…
Structural racism in the built environment: Segregation and the overconcentration of alcohol outlets
Homies with Aspirations and Positive Peer Network Ties: Associations with Reduced Frequent Substance Use among Gang-Affiliated Latino Youth
Voices from the Field: The Social Construction of Alcohol Problems in Inner-City Communities
This study examines the social construction of alcohol problems by activists involved in alcohol policy campaigns in inner-city neighborhoods in the 1990s. Nearly 200 informants were interviewed and asked to describe why they thought local neighborhoods mobilized around alcohol policy issues. In contrast with other social movements that have emphasized individual alcohol problem or addiction experiences, informants in this study focused on the ro…
Mobilizing for Change: Activism and Alcohol Policy Issues in Inner City Communities
Activists in seven US cities were interviewed about why they thought people in their communities mobilized against alcohol-related problems. The data were analyzed in light of the focus on resource mobilization theory in the social movement literature. In contrast with claims that resources are the primary catalyst for change, informants emphasized the role of grievances, and to a lesser extent, bridging factors that caused residents to be more a…
Drinking by Black and White Women: Results from a National Survey
This paper explores whether differences in rates of abstaining and heavier drinking in black and white women can be attributed primarily to differences in socio-economic or marital status. Data for the analysis are based on personal interviews with national probability samples of 1,224 black and 1,034 white women in the United States. The descriptive findings show that blacks are more likely to be abstainers and less likely to be heavier drinkers…
Prohibition, Racism and Class Politics in the Post-Reconstruction South
The virulent racism associated with the southern prohibition movement in the late 19th and early 20th century is practially invisible in literature on the history of alcohol reform movements. This paper explores the rise of racist ideology in the anti-liquor movement and its particular relationship to political factionalism and class conflict in the Post-Reconstruction South. The analysis suggests that the strong role of the anti-liquor movements…
Drinking by Black and White Women: Results from a National Survey
This paper explores whether differences in rates of abstaining and heavier drinking in black and white women can be attributed primarily to differences in socio-economic or marital status. Data for the analysis are based on personal interviews with national probability samples of 1,224 black and 1,034 white women in the United States. The descriptive findings show that blacks are more likely to be abstainers and less likely to be heavier drinkers…
The Influence of Parental Drinking Attitudes and Behavior on the Drinking Patterns of Black and White Adults
The importance of parents as a source of influence on drinking behaviour has been emphasized in socialization theories which stress the primacy of parent-child relationships and the critical roles parents play as role models and as agents for imparting moral values and normative codes. This study examines parental attitudes and drinking frequency and their effects on the drinking patterns of 1947 black and 1777 white adults. Black respondents rep…
The impact of region and urbanization on African American drinking patterns: Results from a national survey
Black identity and drinking in the US: A national study
Black identity and drinking in the US: A national study
The relationship between ethnic identity and drinking patterns was explored in 1947 black adults from a nation-wide study of drinking behavior. Factor analysis revealed that a multi-dimensional construct which included four factors-media preferences, socio-political awareness, endogamy and social networks-was necessary to operationalize and measure the concept of ethnic identity. Using structural equation modeling, a model was tested which analyz…
Changes in drug use prevalence in rap music songs, 1979–1997
This article explores the role of changing images of drug use in rap music from the 1970s to the 1990s. A sample of 341 rap music lyrics were coded for drug mentions, behaviours and contexts; drug attitudes and consequences; and music genres. The results show that from 1979–1997, songs with references to drugs increased over 6-fold; those exhibiting positive attitudes and consequences rose substantially and that references to particular drug type…
Community Mobilization and the Framing of Alcohol-Related Problems
The goal of this study was to describe how activists engaged in campaigns to change alcohol policies in inner city areas framed alcohol problems, and whether or not their frameworks reflected major models used in the field, such as the alcoholism as a disease model, an alcohol problems perspective, or a public health approach to alcohol problems. The findings showed that activists' models shared some aspects with dominant approaches which tend to…
Voices from the Field: The Social Construction of Alcohol Problems in Inner-City Communities
This study examines the social construction of alcohol problems by activists involved in alcohol policy campaigns in inner-city neighborhoods in the 1990s. Nearly 200 informants were interviewed and asked to describe why they thought local neighborhoods mobilized around alcohol policy issues. In contrast with other social movements that have emphasized individual alcohol problem or addiction experiences, informants in this study focused on the ro…
Strategies Employed by Inner-City Activists to Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems and Advance Social Justice
This study explored strategies employed by activists engaged in efforts to change policies and laws related to selling and promoting alcoholic beverages based on in-depth interviews with 184 social activists in seven U.S. major cities. Nine strategies aimed at improving local conditions and influencing policy were described by activists across regional contexts. Grassroots mobilization was central to all other strategies, which included the creat…
Community Level Correlates of Low Birthweight Among African American, Hispanic and White Women in California
Conflicting Paradigms on Gender and Sexuality in Rap Music: A Systematic Review
Homies with Aspirations and Positive Peer Network Ties: Associations with Reduced Frequent Substance Use among Gang-Affiliated Latino Youth
Mobilizing for Change: Activism and Alcohol Policy Issues in Inner City Communities
Activists in seven US cities were interviewed about why they thought people in their communities mobilized against alcohol-related problems. The data were analyzed in light of the focus on resource mobilization theory in the social movement literature. In contrast with claims that resources are the primary catalyst for change, informants emphasized the role of grievances, and to a lesser extent, bridging factors that caused residents to be more a…
The Social Environment and Childbearing Expectations: Implications for Strength-Based Sexual Health Interventions for Latino Youth
Structural racism in the built environment: Segregation and the overconcentration of alcohol outlets
Covid-19 and the political geography of racialisation: Ethnographic cases in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Detroit
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems around the globe, and intensified the lethality of social and political inequality. In the United States, where public health departments have been severely defunded, Black, Native, Latinx communities and those experiencing poverty in the country's largest cities are disproportionately infected and disproportionately dying. Based on our collective ethnographic work in three global cities in the…
Medicine (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (6 works) · Geography (5 works)