B P Bowser
Biographic Data
| ID | 24483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B P Bowser |
| GIVEN NAMES | B P |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowser |
| SIGNATURE | BOWSER B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, East Bay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9479-5822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social-Economic Backgrounds to US County-Based Covid-19 Deaths: PLS-SEM Analysis
Ongoing Genocides and the Need for Healing: The Cases of Native and African Americans
The elimination of Native peoples and the enslavement of Africans in the U.S. more than qualify as acts of historical state sponsored genocide. A feature of both genocides is that they ended as institutional practices but have continued culturally and psychologically. The primary contemporary legacy of these genocides is racism which reinforces historical trauma and grief. Suggestions are made for how healing for Native and African Americans can …
Racism: Origin and Theory
This is a review of the theoretical development of the concept of racism. From its 1960s activist roots, the concept lost its theoretical content in its 1970s popularization. Now racism describes virtually anything having to do with racial conflict. The concept is reintroduced and used to analyze the post-1970s race relations propositions. The declining significance of race, symbolic racism, color-blind racism, and unconscious racism missed the s…
Alliances (Racial/Ethnic)
Since 2000, there has been explosive growth in the social movement literature primarily from international case studies of movements in reaction to globalization. There is a growing recognition that globalization is about advancing neoliberal economics. A feature of this literature is that the social identities of international alliance actors are rarely defined by race or ethnicity. Perhaps other more fundamental bases for alliances and conflict…
Alliances
There are three distinct approaches: activists who form cross‐racial/ethnic alliances; alliances formed by political elites; and community‐level alliances that emerge without elite leadership or activists interventions. The third form or “natural alliances” have generated the most interest in the past decade. Examples have been Black‐Latino alliances; more attention has focused on Caribbean and Black American relationships; and to the Zapatista N…
Drug Treatment Clients and Their Community Peers: How They Differ
Free-at-Last is a drug treatment program in East Palo Alto, California, a low-income predominantly African American community in Silicon Valley. In this research, a cohort of treatment clients was compared to a random sample of community residents. Both groups used drugs. Two-way analysis of variance was used to identify factors that predicted the number of drugs used, controlling for client or community sample status. Significant predictors turn…
Harm Reduction for Drug Abusing Ex-Offenders: Outcome of the California Prevention and Education Project More Project
MORE was a mobile outreach drug abuse prevention and HIV harm reduction program primarily for ex-offenders who are active drug users. Through case management, clients were provided substance abuse education, counseling, and referral. Long term goals of these services were to reduce their drug use and re-incarceration for drug related crimes. From January 2002 to May 2006, 487 unduplicated clients were recruited in year long cohorts and offered se…
Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Book Review| July 01 2009 Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class, Karyn R. Lacy. Benjamin Bowser Benjamin Bowser Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (4): 149–150. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543487 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Outreach-based drug treatment for sex trading women: The Cal-Pep risk-reduction demonstration project
Alliances (Racial/Ethnic)
An alliance is “a close association for a common objective” or “for mutual benefit,” synonymous with the idea of a league, a confederacy, or a union (Friend & Guralnik 1960). One will find research on alliances between business organizations and between clients and therapists in psychotherapy. Here the focus is on alliances in social movements. Despite the importance of alliances in the success of any social movement, there is no tradition of foc…
Ethnography of racial identities in Paris: Public indicators of social hierarchy. A research note
Those who are French by acquisition versus French by birth now represent a new challenge to French social stratification. Do social inequalities exist based upon cultural acquisition as opposed to birth? If so, are they increasing or decreasing? For the moment there is no way to answer these questions directly. The author conducted an ethnographic study in Parisian public spaces during the winter and spring of 2005. The central hypothesis is that…
The social dimensions of the Aids epidemic: A sociology of the Aids epidemic
Concentrates on HIV/AIDS prevention practitioners and how the AIDS epidemic can be recognized in such a way as to influence individuals to assist in prevention. Highlights how the gay community, in particular, have managed to reduce deaths and infection but that the newer members of the community seem to be falling by the wayside now. Discusses social and psychological theories involved in the fight in AIDS prevention. States that in the USA the …
Drug Treatment Effectiveness: African-American Culture in Recovery
African-Americans are overrepresented among drug abusers in the United States when compared to European-Americans, and have lower rates of recovery from drug addiction after treatment. There has been no comprehensive research to date to specifically explain either this overrepresentation or lower rates of recovery among African-Americans. In this article, it is suggested that one reason for this lack of attention is due to the failure of drug abu…
Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor
Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus
Intersecting Epidemics -- Crack Cocaine Use and HIV Infection among Inner-City Young Adults
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: The smoking of "crack" cocaine is thought to be associated with high-risk sexual practices that accelerate the spread of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We studied 2323 young adults, 18 to 29 years of age, who smoked crack regularly or who had never smoked crack. The study participants, recruited from the streets of inner-city neighborhoods in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, were interviewed and …
High-Risk Sex Behavior Among Young Street-Recruited Crack Cocaine Smokers in Three American Cities: An Interim Report
Since crack cocaine appeared in urban areas in the United States in the mid-1980s, reports have suggested that crack smokers may be at increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including infection with HIV, because they have multiple sex partners, trade sex for money or drugs, and rarely use condoms. A cross-sectional survey is being conducted in urban neighborhoods in Miami, New York and San Francisco--where crack use is common--to…
African-American Youth and Aids High-Risk Behavior: The Social Context and Barriers to Prevention
Race Relations in the 1980s: The Case of the United States
It was assumed by many social scientists that a decline in prejudice would be accompanied by a decrease in racial discrimination; a change in belief would result in a change in behavior (Feagin and Feagin 1978: 3-5). Despite declines in survey-reported racial prejudice and the elimination of legally sanctioned and overt discrimination, blacks apparently are still experiencing racially motivated restrictions. At the beginning of the 1980s, blacks …
Impacts on Racism on White Americans
Foreword - Thomas F Pettigrew Introduction to the Second Edition - Benjamin P Bowser and Raymond G Hunt Racism and White Racial Identity - James M Jones and Robert T Carter Merging Realities White Identity and Counseling White Allies about Racism - Lillian Roybal Rose The Political Economy of White Racism in the United States - Louis Kushnick Race and Egalitarian Democracy - Patrick L Mason The Distributional Consequences of Racial Conflict Race …
The Contribution of Blacks to Sociological Knowledge: A Problem of Theory and Role to 1950
N THE LATE 1960s sociology was a popular major for black under1 graduates. There was interest among sociologists in what a generation of black scholars might offer the field since it was clear and of great concern that the social sciences were not bias-free. Methods and interpretations of research were conditioned by the scientist's background, experience, and opinions. If blacks and persons from other diverse backgrounds could enter the field, t…
The Contribution of Blacks to Sociological Knowledge: A Problem of Theory and Role to 1950
N THE LATE 1960s sociology was a popular major for black under1 graduates. There was interest among sociologists in what a generation of black scholars might offer the field since it was clear and of great concern that the social sciences were not bias-free. Methods and interpretations of research were conditioned by the scientist's background, experience, and opinions. If blacks and persons from other diverse backgrounds could enter the field, t…
African-American Youth and Aids High-Risk Behavior: The Social Context and Barriers to Prevention
The social dimensions of the Aids epidemic: A sociology of the Aids epidemic
Concentrates on HIV/AIDS prevention practitioners and how the AIDS epidemic can be recognized in such a way as to influence individuals to assist in prevention. Highlights how the gay community, in particular, have managed to reduce deaths and infection but that the newer members of the community seem to be falling by the wayside now. Discusses social and psychological theories involved in the fight in AIDS prevention. States that in the USA the …
Harm Reduction for Drug Abusing Ex-Offenders: Outcome of the California Prevention and Education Project More Project
MORE was a mobile outreach drug abuse prevention and HIV harm reduction program primarily for ex-offenders who are active drug users. Through case management, clients were provided substance abuse education, counseling, and referral. Long term goals of these services were to reduce their drug use and re-incarceration for drug related crimes. From January 2002 to May 2006, 487 unduplicated clients were recruited in year long cohorts and offered se…
Ethnography of racial identities in Paris: Public indicators of social hierarchy. A research note
Those who are French by acquisition versus French by birth now represent a new challenge to French social stratification. Do social inequalities exist based upon cultural acquisition as opposed to birth? If so, are they increasing or decreasing? For the moment there is no way to answer these questions directly. The author conducted an ethnographic study in Parisian public spaces during the winter and spring of 2005. The central hypothesis is that…
The Contribution of Blacks to Sociological Knowledge: A Problem of Theory and Role to 1950
N THE LATE 1960s sociology was a popular major for black under1 graduates. There was interest among sociologists in what a generation of black scholars might offer the field since it was clear and of great concern that the social sciences were not bias-free. Methods and interpretations of research were conditioned by the scientist's background, experience, and opinions. If blacks and persons from other diverse backgrounds could enter the field, t…
Impacts on Racism on White Americans
Foreword - Thomas F Pettigrew Introduction to the Second Edition - Benjamin P Bowser and Raymond G Hunt Racism and White Racial Identity - James M Jones and Robert T Carter Merging Realities White Identity and Counseling White Allies about Racism - Lillian Roybal Rose The Political Economy of White Racism in the United States - Louis Kushnick Race and Egalitarian Democracy - Patrick L Mason The Distributional Consequences of Racial Conflict Race …
Race Relations in the 1980s: The Case of the United States
It was assumed by many social scientists that a decline in prejudice would be accompanied by a decrease in racial discrimination; a change in belief would result in a change in behavior (Feagin and Feagin 1978: 3-5). Despite declines in survey-reported racial prejudice and the elimination of legally sanctioned and overt discrimination, blacks apparently are still experiencing racially motivated restrictions. At the beginning of the 1980s, blacks …
African-American Youth and Aids High-Risk Behavior: The Social Context and Barriers to Prevention
High-Risk Sex Behavior Among Young Street-Recruited Crack Cocaine Smokers in Three American Cities: An Interim Report
Since crack cocaine appeared in urban areas in the United States in the mid-1980s, reports have suggested that crack smokers may be at increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including infection with HIV, because they have multiple sex partners, trade sex for money or drugs, and rarely use condoms. A cross-sectional survey is being conducted in urban neighborhoods in Miami, New York and San Francisco--where crack use is common--to…
Intersecting Epidemics -- Crack Cocaine Use and HIV Infection among Inner-City Young Adults
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: The smoking of "crack" cocaine is thought to be associated with high-risk sexual practices that accelerate the spread of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We studied 2323 young adults, 18 to 29 years of age, who smoked crack regularly or who had never smoked crack. The study participants, recruited from the streets of inner-city neighborhoods in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, were interviewed and …
Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus
Drug Treatment Effectiveness: African-American Culture in Recovery
African-Americans are overrepresented among drug abusers in the United States when compared to European-Americans, and have lower rates of recovery from drug addiction after treatment. There has been no comprehensive research to date to specifically explain either this overrepresentation or lower rates of recovery among African-Americans. In this article, it is suggested that one reason for this lack of attention is due to the failure of drug abu…
Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor
The social dimensions of the Aids epidemic: A sociology of the Aids epidemic
Concentrates on HIV/AIDS prevention practitioners and how the AIDS epidemic can be recognized in such a way as to influence individuals to assist in prevention. Highlights how the gay community, in particular, have managed to reduce deaths and infection but that the newer members of the community seem to be falling by the wayside now. Discusses social and psychological theories involved in the fight in AIDS prevention. States that in the USA the …
Alliances (Racial/Ethnic)
An alliance is “a close association for a common objective” or “for mutual benefit,” synonymous with the idea of a league, a confederacy, or a union (Friend & Guralnik 1960). One will find research on alliances between business organizations and between clients and therapists in psychotherapy. Here the focus is on alliances in social movements. Despite the importance of alliances in the success of any social movement, there is no tradition of foc…
Ethnography of racial identities in Paris: Public indicators of social hierarchy. A research note
Those who are French by acquisition versus French by birth now represent a new challenge to French social stratification. Do social inequalities exist based upon cultural acquisition as opposed to birth? If so, are they increasing or decreasing? For the moment there is no way to answer these questions directly. The author conducted an ethnographic study in Parisian public spaces during the winter and spring of 2005. The central hypothesis is that…
Outreach-based drug treatment for sex trading women: The Cal-Pep risk-reduction demonstration project
Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Book Review| July 01 2009 Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class, Karyn R. Lacy. Benjamin Bowser Benjamin Bowser Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (4): 149–150. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543487 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Drug Treatment Clients and Their Community Peers: How They Differ
Free-at-Last is a drug treatment program in East Palo Alto, California, a low-income predominantly African American community in Silicon Valley. In this research, a cohort of treatment clients was compared to a random sample of community residents. Both groups used drugs. Two-way analysis of variance was used to identify factors that predicted the number of drugs used, controlling for client or community sample status. Significant predictors turn…
Harm Reduction for Drug Abusing Ex-Offenders: Outcome of the California Prevention and Education Project More Project
MORE was a mobile outreach drug abuse prevention and HIV harm reduction program primarily for ex-offenders who are active drug users. Through case management, clients were provided substance abuse education, counseling, and referral. Long term goals of these services were to reduce their drug use and re-incarceration for drug related crimes. From January 2002 to May 2006, 487 unduplicated clients were recruited in year long cohorts and offered se…
Alliances
There are three distinct approaches: activists who form cross‐racial/ethnic alliances; alliances formed by political elites; and community‐level alliances that emerge without elite leadership or activists interventions. The third form or “natural alliances” have generated the most interest in the past decade. Examples have been Black‐Latino alliances; more attention has focused on Caribbean and Black American relationships; and to the Zapatista N…
Racism: Origin and Theory
This is a review of the theoretical development of the concept of racism. From its 1960s activist roots, the concept lost its theoretical content in its 1970s popularization. Now racism describes virtually anything having to do with racial conflict. The concept is reintroduced and used to analyze the post-1970s race relations propositions. The declining significance of race, symbolic racism, color-blind racism, and unconscious racism missed the s…
Alliances (Racial/Ethnic)
Since 2000, there has been explosive growth in the social movement literature primarily from international case studies of movements in reaction to globalization. There is a growing recognition that globalization is about advancing neoliberal economics. A feature of this literature is that the social identities of international alliance actors are rarely defined by race or ethnicity. Perhaps other more fundamental bases for alliances and conflict…
Ongoing Genocides and the Need for Healing: The Cases of Native and African Americans
The elimination of Native peoples and the enslavement of Africans in the U.S. more than qualify as acts of historical state sponsored genocide. A feature of both genocides is that they ended as institutional practices but have continued culturally and psychologically. The primary contemporary legacy of these genocides is racism which reinforces historical trauma and grief. Suggestions are made for how healing for Native and African Americans can …
Social-Economic Backgrounds to US County-Based Covid-19 Deaths: PLS-SEM Analysis
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Substance abuse (5 works)