Makungu Akinyela
Biographic Data
| ID | 653067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Makungu Akinyela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Makungu |
| FAMILY NAME | Akinyela |
| SIGNATURE | AKINYELA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Afrocentric Approach to Building Cultural Relevance in Social Work Research
Social work researchers who identify and define social problems run the risk of leaving their social fingerprints on such problems, as well as their favored solutions to them. As a result, the direction of the research agenda is driven by the focus of the research problem formulation, instead of the cultural relevance. The purpose of this article is to offer guiding principles for integrating cultural relevance into the social work research proce…
The Religious Dimensions of the Grandparent Role in Three-Generation African American Households
Although the importance of religion in family relations is well documented, the role of grandparents in family religious life has received less attention (Ellison & Moulton, 2003). Among African American families, many studies articulate the importance of family elders in the transmission of religious values (Rosenthal, 1985; Taylor, Jackson, & Chatters, 1997; Weddle-West, 2000). However, few studies delineate the ways African American grandparen…
Conscious Parenting Family Circles
Battling The Serpent
This article posits that the spread of Christianity among enslaved Africans hastened the development of a common ethnic identity among ethnically diverse peoples who were the first generations of enslaved Africans on American shores. The article focuses on this notion of Black religion as a primary source of the logic of Black resistant/resilience and as the spiritual source for the development of a collective Black consciousness. It is further a…
Battling The Serpent
This article posits that the spread of Christianity among enslaved Africans hastened the development of a common ethnic identity among ethnically diverse peoples who were the first generations of enslaved Africans on American shores. The article focuses on this notion of Black religion as a primary source of the logic of Black resistant/resilience and as the spiritual source for the development of a collective Black consciousness. It is further a…
The Religious Dimensions of the Grandparent Role in Three-Generation African American Households
Although the importance of religion in family relations is well documented, the role of grandparents in family religious life has received less attention (Ellison & Moulton, 2003). Among African American families, many studies articulate the importance of family elders in the transmission of religious values (Rosenthal, 1985; Taylor, Jackson, & Chatters, 1997; Weddle-West, 2000). However, few studies delineate the ways African American grandparen…
Conscious Parenting Family Circles
An Afrocentric Approach to Building Cultural Relevance in Social Work Research
Social work researchers who identify and define social problems run the risk of leaving their social fingerprints on such problems, as well as their favored solutions to them. As a result, the direction of the research agenda is driven by the focus of the research problem formulation, instead of the cultural relevance. The purpose of this article is to offer guiding principles for integrating cultural relevance into the social work research proce…
Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)