Exam 12: Race, Ethnicity, and Family Stress
Outline how race and ethnic differences serve as moderating factors when considering how African American families respond to the stress of interactions with law enforcement.
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Racial and ethnic differences serve as moderating factors when considering how families respond to the stress of interactions with law enforcement.
The history of African American individuals, families, and community interactions with law enforcement has been described as one of terror.
Community- and state-sanctioned force was used to produce a fear of behavior that violated the hierarchical racial order.
Tactics used across levels of law enforcement and militia groups ranged on a scale of severity from fatal to nonbodily injurious tactics.
These historical practices produced conditions whereby Black Americans created narratives about the extent to which (or lack thereof) law enforcement protected any rights they had or even the extent to which those agents were empathic to their humanity.
This produced family processes that ranged from using guidebooks that inform readers of locations safe to drive or be as a Black person in America (The Green Book) or "driving while black" socialization practices that warned youth of appropriate behavior during interactions with law enforcement while driving.
Race creates in this instance a contextually specific type of stress for African American families (McNeil Smith & Landor, 2018).
Considering such contexts, the fear of living in such a state has made the stress of such a negative interaction with law enforcement a chronic stressor for African American families.
The strong parent-child commitment to mutually obligatory relationships in many Asian American families can ______.
D
Poverty and the social conditions experienced by African American families may result from ______ stressors such as institutional racism.
D
Why are some transnational families referred to as "virtual migrant families?"
The fundamental trigger of Asian American youths' maladjustment stems from ______.
The strong commitment to family that many Asian American families maintain is an example of ______ in the ABC-X model.
Discrimination that favors light-skinned members of a group over dark-skinned members of a group is called ______.
All families engage with law enforcement in America at some point, but there's a unique history about these interactions that produces chronic stress for African Americans. When considering an African American family, which component of the ABC-X model is interacting with a law enforcement agent or the future possibility of interacting with such agents?
The ______ explicitly describes Asian Americans as high-achieving. In the process, it obscures subgroup differences, cultural histories, and networks. This, in turn, further marginalizes underrepresented Asian Americans who may require public or governmental support.
Black Americans are disproportionately more likely to be killed by police than White people, regardless of the race of the police officer.
Which of the following is an example of instrumental support a single mother might receive from her extended family?
What effect does the model minority myth have on many Asian Americans?
Through ______, children are responsible for their parents' physical and emotional well-being by respecting, honoring, and caring for their parents in order to repay parents' love, devotion, and sacrifice.
Some Asian American parents believe that strict removal of themselves from the educational authorities (e.g., teachers, schools) shows their ______.
Families are solely responsible for the stress they experience and how they respond to the stressors.
______ families refer to families that live in separate countries.
Among African American families, a total of ______ of children under the age of 18 live in a home with a single parent.
Yuning, an Asian American, is often asked "where are you from?" followed by "where are you really from?" What major stereotype about Asian American families does this illustrate?
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