“We Who Are Dark
” The Black Community According to Black Adults in America: An Exploratory Content Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21053231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nyasha A Grayman (University of Delaware, corresponding author), Nyasha Grayman (University of Delaware) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 433-455 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-7984 • E-ISSN: 1552-4558 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0095798408329943 |
| OpenAlex | W2136485930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
The author explored the meaning of the Black community according to a purposeful sample of 60 Black adults in the mid-Atlantic United States. Purposeful stratified sampling resulted in equal numbers of participants along the lines of locale (Brooklyn, New York; Wilmington, Delaware; and Washington, D.C.), gender, and generational affiliation (older adults, middle-aged adults, and young adults). Content analysis of responses to a single open-ended survey question resulted in 11 emergent themes around the meaning of the Black community: the Black community as cultural, the Black community as residential, the Black community as global, the Black community as supportive, the Black community as visibly distinctive, the Black community as socioeconomic, the Black community as nonactualized, the Black community as nondifferential, the Black community as nihilistic, the Black community as nondefinable, and the Black community as other. Gender and generational variations in thematic endorsement were analyzed, and implications of these findings as they pertain to research, mental health programs, and policies for Blacks are discussed
Black male · Exploratory research · Meaning (existential) · Mental health · Population · Qualitative research · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Stratified sampling · Thematic analysis · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Demography · Gender Studies · Medicine · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Basics of qualitative research
Disability and the Black Community
Basic Content Analysis
The Content Analysis Guidebook
Qualitative evaluation and research methods
Consensual qualitative research
The Interpretation of Cultures
Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Deep Structure of Culture
The study of culture, ethnicity, and race in American psychology
Mental Health
Collaborating for Social Change
What Is Community? An Evidence-Based Definition for Participatory Public Health
Effectively Communicating Qualitative Research
Interpretive Interactionism
Chapter 3
Quality and trustworthiness in qualitative research in counseling psychology
The social constructionist movement in modern psychology
Transpersonal Psychology
The Aftermath of Suicide among African Americans
Cohort Differences in the Structure and Outcomes of an African American Belief System
Human Ecology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |