Y A Payne
Biographic Data
| ID | 22256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y A Payne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y A |
| FAMILY NAME | Payne |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNE Y A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4196-5234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Respectful, fearful, and trustworthy policing: Assessing street-identified Black men and women’s tangled attitudes toward the police
OBJECTIVE: Although many studies have examined Black Americans', often in comparison with Whites' and other minorities', perceptions of the police, few studies have focused on the experiences and perspectives of street-identified Black women and men. The main objective of this study is to assess street-identified Black populations' attitudes toward the police. HYPOTHESES: Respectful police perceptions are positively linked to trust in the police …
Chickens Coming Home to Roost”: The Politics of Community Engagement and a Call for Street PAR
This essay grapples with the problematic legacy that sociology and criminology have with supporting community engaged research with street‐identified populations (e.g., gang members, justice‐involved). While universities have increasingly called for community engagement, very few tier‐1 institutions actually provide poor communities with substantive intellectual and material resources. In fact, the community engaged relationship is mostly transac…
Contextualizing Attitudes About Violence from the Vantage Point of Street-Identified Black Male Youth: The Role of the Perceived Neighborhood and Bypassing Adolescence in the Development of Black Masc…
Using Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR), we examined the role of subjective neighborhood quality in bypassing adolescence (through adultification) and pro-violence attitudes among Black male youth. One hundred and thirty-seven street-identified, Black adolescent males (M/SDage = 18.07/1.66) were recruited using snowball sampling through social networks of individuals who identified as “street” or engaged in illegal activity. Respo…
“I Don’t let These Felonies Hold me Back!”: How Street-Identified Black Men and Women Use Resilience to Radically Reframe Reentry
This street participatory action research project trained 15 local residents to document a community sample of street-identified Black men and women’s (ages 18–35 years) experiences with reentry in two low-income Black neighborhoods. The following multi-method data were collected: (a) 520 surveys; (b) 24 individual interviews; (c) four dual interviews; and (d) three group interviews. Descriptive and univariate analysis of variance analysis reveal…
Structural barriers explain the link between negative community re‐entry experiences and motives for illegal behavior in street‐identified Black men and women
This study examines how the re‐entry process is related to structural barriers in the community and to motives for engaging in illegal behavior—two key risk factors for recidivism. We analyzed survey data collected on perceptions of community re‐entry, employment opportunities, neighborhood violence, and illegal behavior motives from 379 formerly incarcerated and street‐identified Black‐American community members residing in Wilmington, Delaware …
Assessing Perceptions of the Police among Street-Identified Black Americans: The Relevance of Neighborhood Conditions
Although public attitudes toward the police have been widely examined over the past several decades, very few quantitative studies have focused on large community samples of street-identified Black populations. Drawing on data collected by a street participatory action research project conducted in two low-income urban Black neighborhoods, this paper examines perceptions of the police as a function of neighborhood and individual correlates among …
More than race? Intragroup differences by gender and age in perceptions of police among street-identified Black men and women
OBJECTIVE: Whereas studies have documented racial differences in attitudes toward police between White and Black Americans, relatively little is known about the intragroup, gender-based variations among urban Black residents involved in criminal activity (i.e., street-identified men and women). HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized Black women would be more likely to believe in police legitimacy and positive intent than men (Hypothesis 1), especially among…
Elevations in Blood Pressure Associated with Exposure to Violence are Mitigated by Pro-gun-Carrying Attitudes among Street-Identified Black Males and Females
Teachers think the kids around here, don't really want to learn”: Street‐identified black men and women's attitudes toward teachers and schooling
This street participatory action research project explored the reflective schooling experiences of street identified Black men and women (ages 18–35) in two small low‐income neighborhoods. Secondary analysis of survey ( N = 520) and interview ( N = 46) data examined: (1) How are attitudes toward schooling and teachers affected by race, gender and age?; and (2) How do students utilize a street‐identity as a site of resilience inside schools? Overa…
Participatory Action Research
Participatory action research (PAR) is a community‐centered research‐activist methodological framework mostly used in the social, educational, and public health sciences. PAR's long legacy is complex and nonlinear and its use as a methodology is extremely varied. This entry examines the historical origins of PAR, provides a spectrum of PAR orientations, presents current debates and some critical reflections in the PAR literature, and considers fu…
Why I Can't Stand Out in Front of My House?”: Street‐Identified Black Youth and Young Adult's Negative Encounters With Police
This street participatory action research (Street PAR ) study organized 15 residents to document street‐identified Black youth and adult's negative experiences with police in Wilmington, Delaware. Data were collected on mostly street‐identified Black men and women aged 18–35 in the forms of (1) 520 surveys, (2) 24 individual interviews, (3) four dual interviews, (4) three group interviews, and (5) extensive field observations. Forty‐two percent o…
Brenda's Got a Baby: Black Single Motherhood and Street Life as a Site of Resilience in Wilmington, Delaware
This secondary analysis examines low-income, street-identified single Black mothers aged 18 to 35 years in Wilmington, Delaware. This study is guided by the following question: To what extent do family composition and criminal record/street activity shape notions of Black single motherhood? "Sites of resilience" theory informs this study by providing a reconceptualization of street life and the phenomenological experiences of street-identified Bl…
Young Jeezy and “ The Recession ”: What Gangster Rap Can Teach Us About Economic Poverty in the Black Community
This article presents an in-depth case study and qualitative examination of Young Jeezy’s album “ The Recession” to explore to what extent Gangster Rap artists use Hip-Hop as way to respond to structural inequality in economically poor Black communities. Through Young Jeezy’s phenomenological standpoint, much can be understood about the lived experiences of Gangster Rap music and culture as well as more broadly, the perspectives of street-identif…
I'm Still Waiting On That Golden Ticket”: Attitudes toward and Experiences with Opportunity in The Streets of Black America
Fifteen residents (20‐48), formerly of the streets and/or criminal justice system, were organized into a street participatory action research team to conduct a street ethnographic community needs assessment of the Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware. This article is primarily a qualitative analysis of the educational and employment experiences of a community sample of street identified Black men and women between the ag…
Site of Resilience: A Reconceptualization of Resiliency and Resilience in Street Life-Oriented Black Men
The following argument calls for the radical reconceptualization of the concept of resiliency and resilience for street life-oriented Black men. This theoretical analysis critiques assumptions embedded within traditional models of resilience asserting (a) they are too value-laden, (b) place much of the onus on individuals to determine resilience, (c) lack a structural dimension, and (d) allow only "experts" to deem individuals as resilient or non…
Street Love”: How Street Life Oriented U. S. Born African Men Frame Giving Back to One Another and the Local Community
"Street Life" as a Site of Resiliency: How Street Life-Oriented Black Men Frame Opportunity in the United States
This study organized a participatory action research team of four street life-oriented Black men to examine attitudes toward opportunity in a community sample of street life-oriented Black men ranging between the ages of 16 and 65. Data were collected in the form of 371 surveys and two group interviews. Most of the data collection took place inside the street communities of Harlem, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Descriptive data suggest…
Becoming American: Stereotype Threat Effects in Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Groups
Educational and occupational data suggest that second-generation West Indian immigrants have less favorable outcomes than their first-generation counterparts, who are typically shown to outperform comparison groups of African Americans. In two studies, we explore the social psychological process of stereotype threat as it differentially affects the performance of first-and second-generation West Indian students. An initial questionnaire study of …
A Gangster and a Gentleman: How Street Life–Oriented, U.S.-Born African Men Negotiate Issues of Survival in Relation to Their Masculinity
This article presents a content analysis of two group interviews with street life-oriented, U.S.-born African men that addresses issues of masculinity. The two group interviews are drawn from a more extensive dissertation data set that includes 371 surveys, 22 individual interviews, and 2 group interviews. The men specifically in the group interviews were asked to listen to and remark on a popular street life-oriented hip-hop song titled 'A Gangs…
Anything Can Happen With Police Around”: Urban Youth Evaluate Strategies of Surveillance in Public Places
In order to document urban youth experiences of adults in positions of public authority, including police, educators, social workers and guards, a broad based street survey of 911 New York City‐based urban youth was conducted in which youth, stratified by race, ethnicity, gender and borough, were asked about their experiences with, attitudes toward, and trust of adult surveillance in communities and in schools. In‐depth telephone interviews were …
Race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans
Race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans
This article examined the relationships among race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans. A sample of 127 elderly African Americans, consisting of 87 women and 26 men (and 14 missing values), were administered the Index of Race-Related Stress, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, and the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey. Results indicated that elderly African American men and women differed…
Psychological impacts of racism in a clinical versus normal sample of African American men
Anything Can Happen With Police Around”: Urban Youth Evaluate Strategies of Surveillance in Public Places
In order to document urban youth experiences of adults in positions of public authority, including police, educators, social workers and guards, a broad based street survey of 911 New York City‐based urban youth was conducted in which youth, stratified by race, ethnicity, gender and borough, were asked about their experiences with, attitudes toward, and trust of adult surveillance in communities and in schools. In‐depth telephone interviews were …
Becoming American: Stereotype Threat Effects in Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Groups
Educational and occupational data suggest that second-generation West Indian immigrants have less favorable outcomes than their first-generation counterparts, who are typically shown to outperform comparison groups of African Americans. In two studies, we explore the social psychological process of stereotype threat as it differentially affects the performance of first-and second-generation West Indian students. An initial questionnaire study of …
Why I Can't Stand Out in Front of My House?”: Street‐Identified Black Youth and Young Adult's Negative Encounters With Police
This street participatory action research (Street PAR ) study organized 15 residents to document street‐identified Black youth and adult's negative experiences with police in Wilmington, Delaware. Data were collected on mostly street‐identified Black men and women aged 18–35 in the forms of (1) 520 surveys, (2) 24 individual interviews, (3) four dual interviews, (4) three group interviews, and (5) extensive field observations. Forty‐two percent o…
Psychological impacts of racism in a clinical versus normal sample of African American men
Site of Resilience: A Reconceptualization of Resiliency and Resilience in Street Life-Oriented Black Men
The following argument calls for the radical reconceptualization of the concept of resiliency and resilience for street life-oriented Black men. This theoretical analysis critiques assumptions embedded within traditional models of resilience asserting (a) they are too value-laden, (b) place much of the onus on individuals to determine resilience, (c) lack a structural dimension, and (d) allow only "experts" to deem individuals as resilient or non…
A Gangster and a Gentleman: How Street Life–Oriented, U.S.-Born African Men Negotiate Issues of Survival in Relation to Their Masculinity
This article presents a content analysis of two group interviews with street life-oriented, U.S.-born African men that addresses issues of masculinity. The two group interviews are drawn from a more extensive dissertation data set that includes 371 surveys, 22 individual interviews, and 2 group interviews. The men specifically in the group interviews were asked to listen to and remark on a popular street life-oriented hip-hop song titled 'A Gangs…
"Street Life" as a Site of Resiliency: How Street Life-Oriented Black Men Frame Opportunity in the United States
This study organized a participatory action research team of four street life-oriented Black men to examine attitudes toward opportunity in a community sample of street life-oriented Black men ranging between the ages of 16 and 65. Data were collected in the form of 371 surveys and two group interviews. Most of the data collection took place inside the street communities of Harlem, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Descriptive data suggest…
Race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans
This article examined the relationships among race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans. A sample of 127 elderly African Americans, consisting of 87 women and 26 men (and 14 missing values), were administered the Index of Race-Related Stress, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, and the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey. Results indicated that elderly African American men and women differed…
Street Love”: How Street Life Oriented U. S. Born African Men Frame Giving Back to One Another and the Local Community
Brenda's Got a Baby: Black Single Motherhood and Street Life as a Site of Resilience in Wilmington, Delaware
This secondary analysis examines low-income, street-identified single Black mothers aged 18 to 35 years in Wilmington, Delaware. This study is guided by the following question: To what extent do family composition and criminal record/street activity shape notions of Black single motherhood? "Sites of resilience" theory informs this study by providing a reconceptualization of street life and the phenomenological experiences of street-identified Bl…
I'm Still Waiting On That Golden Ticket”: Attitudes toward and Experiences with Opportunity in The Streets of Black America
Fifteen residents (20‐48), formerly of the streets and/or criminal justice system, were organized into a street participatory action research team to conduct a street ethnographic community needs assessment of the Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware. This article is primarily a qualitative analysis of the educational and employment experiences of a community sample of street identified Black men and women between the ag…
Structural barriers explain the link between negative community re‐entry experiences and motives for illegal behavior in street‐identified Black men and women
This study examines how the re‐entry process is related to structural barriers in the community and to motives for engaging in illegal behavior—two key risk factors for recidivism. We analyzed survey data collected on perceptions of community re‐entry, employment opportunities, neighborhood violence, and illegal behavior motives from 379 formerly incarcerated and street‐identified Black‐American community members residing in Wilmington, Delaware …
Assessing Perceptions of the Police among Street-Identified Black Americans: The Relevance of Neighborhood Conditions
Although public attitudes toward the police have been widely examined over the past several decades, very few quantitative studies have focused on large community samples of street-identified Black populations. Drawing on data collected by a street participatory action research project conducted in two low-income urban Black neighborhoods, this paper examines perceptions of the police as a function of neighborhood and individual correlates among …
Elevations in Blood Pressure Associated with Exposure to Violence are Mitigated by Pro-gun-Carrying Attitudes among Street-Identified Black Males and Females
Teachers think the kids around here, don't really want to learn”: Street‐identified black men and women's attitudes toward teachers and schooling
This street participatory action research project explored the reflective schooling experiences of street identified Black men and women (ages 18–35) in two small low‐income neighborhoods. Secondary analysis of survey ( N = 520) and interview ( N = 46) data examined: (1) How are attitudes toward schooling and teachers affected by race, gender and age?; and (2) How do students utilize a street‐identity as a site of resilience inside schools? Overa…
Psychological impacts of racism in a clinical versus normal sample of African American men
Race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans
Race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans
This article examined the relationships among race-related stress, quality of life indicators, and life satisfaction among elderly African Americans. A sample of 127 elderly African Americans, consisting of 87 women and 26 men (and 14 missing values), were administered the Index of Race-Related Stress, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, and the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey. Results indicated that elderly African American men and women differed…
Anything Can Happen With Police Around”: Urban Youth Evaluate Strategies of Surveillance in Public Places
In order to document urban youth experiences of adults in positions of public authority, including police, educators, social workers and guards, a broad based street survey of 911 New York City‐based urban youth was conducted in which youth, stratified by race, ethnicity, gender and borough, were asked about their experiences with, attitudes toward, and trust of adult surveillance in communities and in schools. In‐depth telephone interviews were …
A Gangster and a Gentleman: How Street Life–Oriented, U.S.-Born African Men Negotiate Issues of Survival in Relation to Their Masculinity
This article presents a content analysis of two group interviews with street life-oriented, U.S.-born African men that addresses issues of masculinity. The two group interviews are drawn from a more extensive dissertation data set that includes 371 surveys, 22 individual interviews, and 2 group interviews. The men specifically in the group interviews were asked to listen to and remark on a popular street life-oriented hip-hop song titled 'A Gangs…
Becoming American: Stereotype Threat Effects in Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Groups
Educational and occupational data suggest that second-generation West Indian immigrants have less favorable outcomes than their first-generation counterparts, who are typically shown to outperform comparison groups of African Americans. In two studies, we explore the social psychological process of stereotype threat as it differentially affects the performance of first-and second-generation West Indian students. An initial questionnaire study of …
"Street Life" as a Site of Resiliency: How Street Life-Oriented Black Men Frame Opportunity in the United States
This study organized a participatory action research team of four street life-oriented Black men to examine attitudes toward opportunity in a community sample of street life-oriented Black men ranging between the ages of 16 and 65. Data were collected in the form of 371 surveys and two group interviews. Most of the data collection took place inside the street communities of Harlem, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Descriptive data suggest…
Street Love”: How Street Life Oriented U. S. Born African Men Frame Giving Back to One Another and the Local Community
Site of Resilience: A Reconceptualization of Resiliency and Resilience in Street Life-Oriented Black Men
The following argument calls for the radical reconceptualization of the concept of resiliency and resilience for street life-oriented Black men. This theoretical analysis critiques assumptions embedded within traditional models of resilience asserting (a) they are too value-laden, (b) place much of the onus on individuals to determine resilience, (c) lack a structural dimension, and (d) allow only "experts" to deem individuals as resilient or non…
Young Jeezy and “ The Recession ”: What Gangster Rap Can Teach Us About Economic Poverty in the Black Community
This article presents an in-depth case study and qualitative examination of Young Jeezy’s album “ The Recession” to explore to what extent Gangster Rap artists use Hip-Hop as way to respond to structural inequality in economically poor Black communities. Through Young Jeezy’s phenomenological standpoint, much can be understood about the lived experiences of Gangster Rap music and culture as well as more broadly, the perspectives of street-identif…
I'm Still Waiting On That Golden Ticket”: Attitudes toward and Experiences with Opportunity in The Streets of Black America
Fifteen residents (20‐48), formerly of the streets and/or criminal justice system, were organized into a street participatory action research team to conduct a street ethnographic community needs assessment of the Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware. This article is primarily a qualitative analysis of the educational and employment experiences of a community sample of street identified Black men and women between the ag…
Participatory Action Research
Participatory action research (PAR) is a community‐centered research‐activist methodological framework mostly used in the social, educational, and public health sciences. PAR's long legacy is complex and nonlinear and its use as a methodology is extremely varied. This entry examines the historical origins of PAR, provides a spectrum of PAR orientations, presents current debates and some critical reflections in the PAR literature, and considers fu…
Why I Can't Stand Out in Front of My House?”: Street‐Identified Black Youth and Young Adult's Negative Encounters With Police
This street participatory action research (Street PAR ) study organized 15 residents to document street‐identified Black youth and adult's negative experiences with police in Wilmington, Delaware. Data were collected on mostly street‐identified Black men and women aged 18–35 in the forms of (1) 520 surveys, (2) 24 individual interviews, (3) four dual interviews, (4) three group interviews, and (5) extensive field observations. Forty‐two percent o…
Brenda's Got a Baby: Black Single Motherhood and Street Life as a Site of Resilience in Wilmington, Delaware
This secondary analysis examines low-income, street-identified single Black mothers aged 18 to 35 years in Wilmington, Delaware. This study is guided by the following question: To what extent do family composition and criminal record/street activity shape notions of Black single motherhood? "Sites of resilience" theory informs this study by providing a reconceptualization of street life and the phenomenological experiences of street-identified Bl…
Teachers think the kids around here, don't really want to learn”: Street‐identified black men and women's attitudes toward teachers and schooling
This street participatory action research project explored the reflective schooling experiences of street identified Black men and women (ages 18–35) in two small low‐income neighborhoods. Secondary analysis of survey ( N = 520) and interview ( N = 46) data examined: (1) How are attitudes toward schooling and teachers affected by race, gender and age?; and (2) How do students utilize a street‐identity as a site of resilience inside schools? Overa…
More than race? Intragroup differences by gender and age in perceptions of police among street-identified Black men and women
OBJECTIVE: Whereas studies have documented racial differences in attitudes toward police between White and Black Americans, relatively little is known about the intragroup, gender-based variations among urban Black residents involved in criminal activity (i.e., street-identified men and women). HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized Black women would be more likely to believe in police legitimacy and positive intent than men (Hypothesis 1), especially among…
Elevations in Blood Pressure Associated with Exposure to Violence are Mitigated by Pro-gun-Carrying Attitudes among Street-Identified Black Males and Females
“I Don’t let These Felonies Hold me Back!”: How Street-Identified Black Men and Women Use Resilience to Radically Reframe Reentry
This street participatory action research project trained 15 local residents to document a community sample of street-identified Black men and women’s (ages 18–35 years) experiences with reentry in two low-income Black neighborhoods. The following multi-method data were collected: (a) 520 surveys; (b) 24 individual interviews; (c) four dual interviews; and (d) three group interviews. Descriptive and univariate analysis of variance analysis reveal…
Structural barriers explain the link between negative community re‐entry experiences and motives for illegal behavior in street‐identified Black men and women
This study examines how the re‐entry process is related to structural barriers in the community and to motives for engaging in illegal behavior—two key risk factors for recidivism. We analyzed survey data collected on perceptions of community re‐entry, employment opportunities, neighborhood violence, and illegal behavior motives from 379 formerly incarcerated and street‐identified Black‐American community members residing in Wilmington, Delaware …
Assessing Perceptions of the Police among Street-Identified Black Americans: The Relevance of Neighborhood Conditions
Although public attitudes toward the police have been widely examined over the past several decades, very few quantitative studies have focused on large community samples of street-identified Black populations. Drawing on data collected by a street participatory action research project conducted in two low-income urban Black neighborhoods, this paper examines perceptions of the police as a function of neighborhood and individual correlates among …
Contextualizing Attitudes About Violence from the Vantage Point of Street-Identified Black Male Youth: The Role of the Perceived Neighborhood and Bypassing Adolescence in the Development of Black Masc…
Using Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR), we examined the role of subjective neighborhood quality in bypassing adolescence (through adultification) and pro-violence attitudes among Black male youth. One hundred and thirty-seven street-identified, Black adolescent males (M/SDage = 18.07/1.66) were recruited using snowball sampling through social networks of individuals who identified as “street” or engaged in illegal activity. Respo…
Respectful, fearful, and trustworthy policing: Assessing street-identified Black men and women’s tangled attitudes toward the police
OBJECTIVE: Although many studies have examined Black Americans', often in comparison with Whites' and other minorities', perceptions of the police, few studies have focused on the experiences and perspectives of street-identified Black women and men. The main objective of this study is to assess street-identified Black populations' attitudes toward the police. HYPOTHESES: Respectful police perceptions are positively linked to trust in the police …
Chickens Coming Home to Roost”: The Politics of Community Engagement and a Call for Street PAR
This essay grapples with the problematic legacy that sociology and criminology have with supporting community engaged research with street‐identified populations (e.g., gang members, justice‐involved). While universities have increasingly called for community engagement, very few tier‐1 institutions actually provide poor communities with substantive intellectual and material resources. In fact, the community engaged relationship is mostly transac…
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