Research - BLAcK Hub

Normalizing Marginality: A Critical Analysis of Blackness and Disability in Higher Education

Black Hub Ase — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:02:11 +0000

This dissertation examines the experiences of Black undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities enrolled at the University of Toronto, Canada.

The Healing Power of Art in Intergenerational Trauma: Race, Sex, Age and Disability

Black Hub Ase — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:02:35 +0000

Throughout this paper, I use a political and activist lens to think about disability arts and its potential role in opening up a necessary conversation around how madness is produced by experiences of racism, poverty, sexism, and inter-generational trauma within the Black community.

The (Em)bodiment of Blackness in a Visceral Anti-Black Racism and Ableism Context

Black Hub Ase — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:02:57 +0000

The present essay is contributing to the debate by critically
exploring the relationship(s) between race, class, and disability ‘diagnoses’ and placement practices in special education programs in Toronto, Canada. The core ideas noted in the essay are drawn from a personal story of an African-Canadian parent – a story of a daughter with a diagnosed disability and her mother’s struggle to resist the disability ‘diagnosis’ as well as her battle rejecting her daughter’s placement in the special education program in a Toronto public school.

Work In The Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework

Black Hub Ase — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 23:04:03 +0000

ABSTRACT: A Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and to forward an intersectional framework that considers race, gender, and disability to address the gaps in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. By employing a Black feminist disability framework, scholars of african american and Black Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Disability Studies have a flexible and useful methodology through which to consider the historical, social, cultural, political, and economic reverberations of disability.

“If You Prayed More, You Would Feel Better”: The Dual Nature of Religion and Spirituality on Black Youths’ Mental Health and Access to Care in Canada

Black Hub Ase — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:46:58 +0000

Abstract

This study explores Black Canadian youth’s relationship with religion and the impact religion has on their mental health and wellbeing. In addition, we probed promising practices for religious leaders and service providers who want to improve Black youth’s access to care. The results of this article draw from a larger study that aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators to mental healthcare for Black youth in Ontario, Canada. 128 (n = 66 youth, n = 35 service providers, n = 27 family and community members; 91% Black, 24% people of colour, 67% white) participants from six regions across Ontario were engaged in 23 qualitative focus groups held virtually between March 2020 and August 2021. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Three themes emerged from the data: The stigma and taboo nature of mental illness, the influence of religion and mental health and suggestions to improve care for Black youth. Mental illness is stigmatized in specific ways in Black communities and intergenerational differences exist in how mental illness is conceptualized. In addition, Black Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning and other diverse or marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQ+) youth face additional difficulties in relation to stigma. Religion and religious affiliation stigmatized mental illness yet, both were considered important for inclusion in traditional mental health supports. To improve access to care for Black youth, there is a need for community-practitioner partnerships, incorporating religion into traditional mental healthcare, and increasing mental health awareness in religious and community spaces. This study is among the first to explore the impact of religion on Black youth’s mental health, findings can contribute to increased access to affirming and responsive care for this population.

Racial and Ethnic Inequities in the Return-to-Work of Workers Experiencing Injury or Illness: A Systematic Review

Black Hub Ase — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:50:08 +0000

Abstract

Non-White workers face more frequent, severe, and disabling occupational and non-occupational injuries and illnesses when compared to White workers. It is unclear whether the return-to-work (RTW) process following injury or illness differs according to race or ethnicity.

De-Lawrence Lamptey, Faculty of Health, York University

Black Hub Ase — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:43:37 +0000

Dr. Lamptey obtained his PhD in Rehabilitation Science from Queen’s University and has received extensive training in childhood disability and early childhood development from Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Mount Saint Vincent University and York University. He has several publications related to policy, programs, and services for children and youth with disabilities. He is currently completing his post-doctoral fellowship in the Critical Disability Program at York University’s School of Health Policy & Management. His current research focuses on the intersectionality of childhood disability and racial identity across Canada.

Rai Reece , Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University

Black Hub Ase — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:14:51 +0000

Dr. Rai Reece is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist. Her work examines how carceral processes in Canada are organized and maintained by historical and contemporary narratives and practices of colonial violence specific to anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. More broadly, her work explores the intersection of punishment and misogynoir as legally and socially enacted via governance and white settler capitalism. A central feature of her work explores how community-based ethnographic pedagogy can be a tool for social activism and the limitations to that praxis. She received the ‘100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women’ Award in 2020 and the Humber College Research Excellence Award in 2018.

Bukola Salami

Black Hub Ase — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:44:27 +0000

Dr. Bukola Salami is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Her research program focuses on policies and practices shaping migrants’ health. She has been involved in ~50 funded research projects and is/was the lead on 20 of these projects with funding from national and international agencies. She has led research projects on African immigrant child health, immigrant mental health, access to healthcare for immigrant children, African immigrant youth mental health, migration of nurses as live-in caregivers, experience of temporary foreign workers in Alberta, downward occupational mobility of immigrant nurses, and parenting practices of African immigrants. Dr. Salami has published over 55 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals (with another 15 under review), 2 book chapters, and 8 reports. She represents the University of Alberta on the steering committee of the Worldwide Universities Network Global Africa Group. She founded and leads an African migrant child research network of around 30 scholars from four continents. She is involved in several community volunteer initiatives including serving as a public member on the Council of the Alberta College of Social Workers. She has a solid track record of training students. She has trained over 30 students, many of whom have received awards, including a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and an International Development Research Center Doctoral Award. Dr. Salami has received several awards for research excellence and community engagement: 100 Accomplished Black Women in Canada; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Emerging Nurse Researcher of the Year Award; College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA) Award for Nursing Excellence; and Alberta Avenue Edmonton Top 40 under 40. She has recently been selected as a recipient of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, the highest research award in nursing.

Rachel Gorman

Black Hub Ase — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 23:22:06 +0000

Rachel da Silveira Gorman is an associate professor in York University’s Critical Disability Studies Program, where she is the program development lead for a new undergraduate program in Racialized Health and Disability Justice with a certificate in Mad Studies and Critical Mental Health. She is an artist and activist with expertise in fine arts, cultural studies, transnational social movements, aesthetics of disability, and critiques of ideology. Da Silveira Gorman has created and choreographed 14 dance-theatre and site-specific productions, ten of which have been remounted or screened at festivals.