The Culture of Stigma Surrounding Depression in the African American Family and Community

This article explores the crisis of depression in post-modern America through the contextualized lens of the African American experience. In view of the pervasive societal realities of race, class, and gender oppression, the article begins by identifying the American trans-Atlantic slave trade as an...

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Main Author: Wimberley, Wynnetta (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2015]
In: Journal of pastoral theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 18-29
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
KBQ North America
NCC Social ethics
RG Pastoral care
Further subjects:B Historical trauma
B Depression
B counseling African Americans
B cultural stigmatization
B societal oppression
B Stress
B Collective Memory
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)