Connections: Black Family Flashcards
Nuclear Family Model
Married man & woman, mom stays at home, dad works, son & daughter, dog & cat, suburban home
Capitalism & how it negatively impacts Black Male/ Female relationships
private ownership of the means to satisfy needs, & the ruthless & continuous pursuit of profit
Turns relationships into commodities & utilitarian arrangements
Racism & how it negatively impacts Black Male/ Female relationships
A system of denial & deformation of a people’s history & humanity based on the concept of race
Engenders self-hate, self-doubt, & the pathological fixation on the white paradigm (model)
Sexism & how it negatively impacts Black Male/ Female relationships
Social practice of using gender or sex as the key determinant in establishing, maintaining, & explaining relationships & exchanges
Encourages artificial personal personal power over women as a substitute for real social power over one’s destiny
Cash connection
commodity character of society/ capitalistic assumptions
Flesh connection
pornographic character of society, association based purely on the pursuit of sex
Force connection
Violent & oppressive character of society/ economic coercion may be a part
Dependency connection
Women who has been transformed into a commodity/ women won’t leave relationship even under the worst conditions
Mitchell Black Family Model
Unborn Children Adults Elders Spirits
Myers theme for research
Poverty-Acculturation: research that suggests that black family were more successful by the standards of the white middle class
Pathology: built on principles of Black Matriarchy/ emphasizing the consequences of poverty/ provided supposed evidence for the disorganized family
Reactive-Apology: research that challenged pathology notions and suggested that the Black families under that study were similar to whites
Black Nationalists: Research that emphasized the strengths and competencies of Black families rather than the deficiencies & pathology
Proactive-Revisionist: Research that allowed the old questions regarding the black family to be re-conceptualized/ portrayed a more positive light on Black families
Two steps to solving problems in Black female/male relationships
1) Adequately define your own conflict
2) Conscious critical dialogue on Trust Control Sex Instrumental roles vs expressive roles
4 Values of Black/Female Relationship
Interdependence
Mutual Respect
Cooperation
Absence of rigid sex roles and social roles
