Michael Benjamin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3819970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Benjamin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Benjamin |
| SIGNATURE | BENJAMIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3691-5558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I want the heart of fierceness to arise within us’: Maintaining public space to promote HIV-related health with House Ball Community members in an era of gentrification
The House Ball Community consists of sexual, gender and ethnic minority youth who form family-like houses and compete in balls. Many rely on community-based organisations as venues for socialising and accessing health-related resources. In recent years, urban gentrification has challenged the economic survival of the organisations that serve this community and its members. Between 2016 and 2017, we conducted 45 in-depth interviews with houses and…
Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe
Reviewed by: Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe Michael Benjamin Mbembe, Achille. Critique of Black Reason. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason, translated from French with an insightful introduction by eminent historian Laurent DuBois, is a philosophical study of the meaning of Blackness within its historical development. It examines race as a biological and social phenomenon constructed by,…
In Search of the Grail: The Conceptual Origins of the “Encyclopedia Africana”
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, which offers comprehensive summaries by persons of African descent about persons of African descent throughout the world, appeared in 1999, but its origins have eluded scholars. They attribute the project's idea to W. E. B. Du Bois. But archival evidence tells us the conception of such an encyclopedia emerged independently of him. Proceeding from an effort contemporaneous …
Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia
In 1912, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray published a prospectus for his “Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World.” He promised to publish what literary historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., would describe as the “Grail” for black scholars. As Murray planned his encyclopedia in the first decade of the twentieth century, persons of African descent in the United States were killed and assaulted because of their rac…
Vincent Carretta, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
Negotiating Ethnic Identity In Canada: The Case of the “Satellite Children
Satellite children are children of ethnically Chinese immigrants to North America who have returned to their country of origin after immigration. Based on interview transcripts of 68 adolescent satellite children, an analysis on the negotiation of ethnic identity was performed using the NUD*IST software. The analysis showed multiple ways of ethnic identity negotiation, ranging from an essentialist approach to differentiation and to confusion. Exi…
Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues
General Introduction PART ONE: BACKGROUND Family Mediation Practice and the Knowledge Base An Integrative Review of the Divorce Research Literature (Phases 1 through 3) Family Mediation Practice and the Knowledge Base An Integrative Review of the Divorce Research Literature (Phases 4 through 5) PART TWO: CLINICAL PRACTICE Therapeutic Family Mediation Practice Principles and Ecosystemic Processes Toward a Feminist-Informed Model of Therapeutic Fam…
Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues
Family mediation has quickly become a significant means of legal dispute resolution, recognized in most North American jurisdictions as a relief to already overburdened judicial systems. Using an innovative practical approach, the authors of Family Mediation incorporate the pivotal principals of family therapy into this new context - the judicial realm of family mediation. The practice model - therapeutic family mediation - thoroughly treats hist…
The Transformation to a Market Economy and the State
The quality of student life: Toward a coherent conceptualization
Comparison of the Experience of Satisfied and Dissatisfied Shared Parents
As part of a larger study, in this report we compare the experience of 167 (83%) satisfied and 34 (17%) dissatsfied shared parents in five substantive areas: sociodemographics, marital separation, the initiation of shared parenting, the shared parenting agreement, and the coparental relationship. In all areas but sociodemographics, the two groups were distinctly different, with the experience of satisfied parents more positive than their dissatis…
Negotiating Ethnic Identity In Canada: The Case of the “Satellite Children
Satellite children are children of ethnically Chinese immigrants to North America who have returned to their country of origin after immigration. Based on interview transcripts of 68 adolescent satellite children, an analysis on the negotiation of ethnic identity was performed using the NUD*IST software. The analysis showed multiple ways of ethnic identity negotiation, ranging from an essentialist approach to differentiation and to confusion. Exi…
The quality of student life: Toward a coherent conceptualization
Comparison of the Experience of Satisfied and Dissatisfied Shared Parents
As part of a larger study, in this report we compare the experience of 167 (83%) satisfied and 34 (17%) dissatsfied shared parents in five substantive areas: sociodemographics, marital separation, the initiation of shared parenting, the shared parenting agreement, and the coparental relationship. In all areas but sociodemographics, the two groups were distinctly different, with the experience of satisfied parents more positive than their dissatis…
The quality of student life: Toward a coherent conceptualization
Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues
Family mediation has quickly become a significant means of legal dispute resolution, recognized in most North American jurisdictions as a relief to already overburdened judicial systems. Using an innovative practical approach, the authors of Family Mediation incorporate the pivotal principals of family therapy into this new context - the judicial realm of family mediation. The practice model - therapeutic family mediation - thoroughly treats hist…
The Transformation to a Market Economy and the State
Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues
General Introduction PART ONE: BACKGROUND Family Mediation Practice and the Knowledge Base An Integrative Review of the Divorce Research Literature (Phases 1 through 3) Family Mediation Practice and the Knowledge Base An Integrative Review of the Divorce Research Literature (Phases 4 through 5) PART TWO: CLINICAL PRACTICE Therapeutic Family Mediation Practice Principles and Ecosystemic Processes Toward a Feminist-Informed Model of Therapeutic Fam…
Negotiating Ethnic Identity In Canada: The Case of the “Satellite Children
Satellite children are children of ethnically Chinese immigrants to North America who have returned to their country of origin after immigration. Based on interview transcripts of 68 adolescent satellite children, an analysis on the negotiation of ethnic identity was performed using the NUD*IST software. The analysis showed multiple ways of ethnic identity negotiation, ranging from an essentialist approach to differentiation and to confusion. Exi…
Vincent Carretta, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia
In 1912, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray published a prospectus for his “Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World.” He promised to publish what literary historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., would describe as the “Grail” for black scholars. As Murray planned his encyclopedia in the first decade of the twentieth century, persons of African descent in the United States were killed and assaulted because of their rac…
In Search of the Grail: The Conceptual Origins of the “Encyclopedia Africana”
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, which offers comprehensive summaries by persons of African descent about persons of African descent throughout the world, appeared in 1999, but its origins have eluded scholars. They attribute the project's idea to W. E. B. Du Bois. But archival evidence tells us the conception of such an encyclopedia emerged independently of him. Proceeding from an effort contemporaneous …
Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe
Reviewed by: Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe Michael Benjamin Mbembe, Achille. Critique of Black Reason. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason, translated from French with an insightful introduction by eminent historian Laurent DuBois, is a philosophical study of the meaning of Blackness within its historical development. It examines race as a biological and social phenomenon constructed by,…
I want the heart of fierceness to arise within us’: Maintaining public space to promote HIV-related health with House Ball Community members in an era of gentrification
The House Ball Community consists of sexual, gender and ethnic minority youth who form family-like houses and compete in balls. Many rely on community-based organisations as venues for socialising and accessing health-related resources. In recent years, urban gentrification has challenged the economic survival of the organisations that serve this community and its members. Between 2016 and 2017, we conducted 45 in-depth interviews with houses and…
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