African American Historical Trauma: Creating an Inclusive Measure

Williams-Washington, Kristin N.; Mills, Chmaika P.

doi:10.1002/jmcd.12113

Cited by 60 publications

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“…The scholarship on historical trauma has been growing steadily for the past 20 years, primarily focusing on American Indian Alaskan Native (AIAN) groups (Brave Heart 1998;Walters and Simoni 2002). However, in the past decade, the historical trauma framework has been increasingly applied to other populations with histories of colonial trauma (Estrada 2009;Hanna 2017;Pihama et al 2014;Pokhrel and Herzog 2014;Williams-Washington and Mills 2018). As this research continues to expand, the debate about the applicability of the historical trauma framework has evolved.…”

Section: Historical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

The Historical Trauma and Resilience of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework

Orozco-Figueroa

2021

Genealogy

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Recently, Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) have encountered an escalation in adverse social conditions and trauma events in the United States. For individuals of Mexican ancestry in the United States (IMA-US), these recent events represent the latest chapter in their history of adversity: a history that can help us understand their social and health disparities. This paper utilized a scoping review to provide a historical and interdisciplinary perspective on discussions of mental health and substance use disorders relevant to IMA-US. The scoping review process yielded 16 peer reviewed sources from various disciplines, published from 1998 through 2018. Major themes included historically traumatic events, inter-generational responses to historical trauma, and vehicles of transmission of trauma narratives. Recommendations for healing from historical and contemporary oppression are discussed. This review expands the clinical baseline knowledge relevant to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of contemporary traumatic exposures for IMA-US.

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Section: Historical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

The Historical Trauma and Resilience of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework

Orozco-Figueroa

2021

Genealogy

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“…The mechanisms of historical trauma responses have been conceptualized as four pathways, segregation/ displacement, physical/psychological violence, economic destruction, and cultural dispossession (Sotero, 2006, p. 98). However, there have been few models of historical trauma, ones that have been geared toward indigenous, Black people, or people of Color more broadly that has captured the impact of colorism on the transmission of historical trauma responses (Ortega Williams et al, 2019;Schultz et al, 2016;Sotero, 2006;Williams-Washington & Mills, 2018). The colorist-historical trauma framework explores the function of colorism as a dimension of subjugation initiating and maintaining the historical trauma response (Ortega Williams et al, 2019).…”

Section: Colorist-historical Trauma Frameworkmentioning

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Colorism and the Poetics of Resistance Among Black Youth: An Application of the Colorist-Historical Trauma Framework

Crutchfield

Hall

Ortega‐Williams

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Journal of Black Studies

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The colorist-historical trauma framework offers scholars, practitioners, and educators a new lens with which to more effectively combat racial disparities in society through the understanding of the intergenerational transmission of colorism in the historical trauma response of African Americans. This article applies the colorist-historical trauma framework to the colorism poems of young African Americans who demonstrate that poetry, as a device of healing, can be a useful mechanism of passing on more than the challenges associated with colorism, but also the art of resistance. The results of this thematic analysis produced three emerging concepts about the poetics of 16 young African Americans and have implications for mental health practitioners, educators, and scholars that uplift the healing process of poetry.

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“…Brave Heart (1998) used HT to better understand, and respond to, what she conceived of as the origin of mental and behavioral health disparities among her people. Historical traumas exist in non-indigenous racial and ethnic groups as well that have experienced pervasive historical, political, economic, and social oppression, such as racial subjugation and colonization (Lopez-Levers & Hyatt-Burkhart, 2012; Ortega-Williams, 2017; Williams-Washington & Mills, 2018). In the HT framework, historical trauma exists at the level of group identity and is passed on socially (DeGruy-Leary, 2005; Sotero, 2006).…”

Section: Historical Trauma and African American Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, research explaining the mechanisms of historical trauma and their differential impact within a population are scant (Schultz et al, 2016b;Sotero, 2006). Additionally, although colorism is well documented as linked to well-being, conceptual models of historical trauma have not accounted for its function as a dimension of subjugation or the historical trauma response (Brave Heart, 1998;Sotero, 2006;Williams-Washington & Mills, 2018). Table 1 outlines the impact of colorism on the physiological, environmental, psychosocial, socioeconomic and political, and legal pathways initiating and maintaining a historical trauma response.…”

Section: The Colorist-historical Trauma Framework: Colorism As a Function Of Subjugationmentioning

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The colorist-historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans

Ortega‐Williams

Crutchfield

Hall

2019

Journal of Social Work

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Summary An evolution of thought and practice regarding the relationship of racism to well-being, healing, and trauma continues within social work and the helping professions. Additionally, empirical research on colorism as a key dimension of racism suggests that colorism negatively impacts the psychological and physical well-being of African Americans. However, few studies have examined well-being among African Americans in the context of historical trauma, through the lens of colorism. In this paper, the intersectionality of colorism and historical trauma is explored to inform culturally responsive social work education, practice, and research regarding African American well-being. It is the first step toward developing a colorist-historical trauma framework. The impact of colorism as a function of historical trauma response transmission among African Americans is presented. Findings Advances in culturally responsive practice in social work address the impact of social determinants of health, such as racism. However, the impact of colorism within systemic racism is often unacknowledged. The authors assert that social work practice must attune to the differentiated socioemotional, political, and economic needs that exist among African Americans due to the impact of colorism and historical trauma. An intersectional lens, such as the colorist-historical trauma framework, is essential for culturally responsive practice. Applications The colorist-historical trauma framework contributes to the professional social work discourse aimed at strengthening effective micro-, meso-, and macro-level practice with African Americans for well-being. Implications for social work practice, research, and education are presented.

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African American Historical Trauma: Creating an Inclusive Measure

Cited by 60 publications

References 39 publications

The Historical Trauma and Resilience of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework

The Historical Trauma and Resilience of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework

Colorism and the Poetics of Resistance Among Black Youth: An Application of the Colorist-Historical Trauma Framework

The colorist-historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans

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