Supporting Young Men of Color as Survivors of Crime and Violence

O'Connor, Lisa A.; Weinstein, Benjamin; Stylianou, Amanda M.

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“…That these men lack social support in response to racism online is worrisome, as social support has the potential to buffer many of the deleterious effects of racism (Ajrouch et al 2010; Bowleg et al 2013; Cooper et al 2013; Kimura 2008; O’Connor, Weinstein, and Stylianou 2017; Rollock and Lui 2016). Yet, many of these men still aim to help new gamers practice minimizing the anger, shock, and pain of trash talking, and encourage desensitization to protect them from the possible emotional damage of racist hate speech.…”

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“You Can Say I Got Desensitized to It”: How Men of Color Cope with Everyday Racism in Online Gaming

Ortiz

2019

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Online trolling as a form of overt racism forces sociologists to reexamine contemporary understandings of racialization in a color-blind era. In this article, I demonstrate how men of color construct meanings about their experiences of racist hate speech, referred to as trash talk, on an online gaming platform. Analyzing semistructured interviews, I show that respondents cope with this form of racism through a process of desensitization. This strategy is mediated by respondents’ peer socialization on how to effectively manage this racism as men, and their stigmatization by others who do not view these experiences as “real” racism. Strategies to cope with racism in this domain are thus gendered in ways that encourage men of color to remain silent in the face of repeated hate speech. This study further demonstrates how individual strategies developed to navigate racism online are tied to broader, collective understandings of the meanings of race, racisms, and masculinity.

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“You Can Say I Got Desensitized to It”: How Men of Color Cope with Everyday Racism in Online Gaming

Ortiz

2019

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“…Studies have highlighted the relationship between community violence and health‐related activities including patients who had significant difficulties with treatment adherence and reduced physical activity (Tung et al., 2018). There is a lack of health services that support African American men that witness or experience violence (O’Connor, Weinstein, & Stylianou, 2017). Residing in a subordinate underprivileged community with high violent activity, reduced utilisation of healthcare services and a lack of supportive services leaves African American men at risk for deprived health outcomes.…”

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Community violence and African American male health outcomes: An integrative review of literature

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The morbidity and mortality rates of African American men consistently rank among the lowest across all groups in the United States. African American men have one of the highest mortality rates for heart disease, cancer, stroke unintentional injuries and homicide (Gilbert et al., 2016). The leading cause of death in African American men age 24-34 years old is homicide (CDC, 2011). A majority of the health disparities experienced by African American men are the result of socioeconomic disadvantage, racism and residing in resource-poor communities (Bharmal et al., 2011). With disproportionate access to care and community stressors, there is a critical need to explore the health of African American men in high violent neighbourhoods. Many African American men live in disadvantaged communities marked by strenuous poverty, residential instability, joblessness, violent crime and educational shortages (Simning, Wijngaarden, & Conwell, 2012). African American men are also more likely not to have regular care, live in food deserts, work in unsafe environments and engage in unhealthy behaviours like tobacco use and alcohol consumption (Metzl, 2013). Dwelling in these communities, leave African American men at risk for adverse experiences that impact their health behaviours and outcomes. Community violence is an important consideration of the physical environment. Community violence is characterised by physical assault, sexual assault, homicide, mugging, gang violence, unnecessary force by authorities, theft and family violence (Walling, Eriksson, Putman, & Foy, 2011). Additionally, community violence exposure has been linked to higher rates of weapon involvement especially in African Americans, potentially due to self-defence, fear of violence or association with delinquency and aggression (Shetgiri, Boots, Lin, & Cheng, 2016). In particular, gun violence disproportionately impacts communities with social and economic inequities (Santilli et al., 2017). Inequities in communities of colour are due to structural racism such as segregation. Communities plagued with

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Supporting Young Men of Color as Survivors of Crime and Violence

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“You Can Say I Got Desensitized to It”: How Men of Color Cope with Everyday Racism in Online Gaming

“You Can Say I Got Desensitized to It”: How Men of Color Cope with Everyday Racism in Online Gaming

Community violence and African American male health outcomes: An integrative review of literature

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