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Title: Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling: A Framework to Address Racial Trauma in Africana Communities
Racial trauma, an ongoing consequence of historical trauma, has deleterious effects on the well-being of Africana communities. The psychological literature primarily reflects individual processes in the relationship between racial trauma and healing. Going beyond individualistic approaches, we present a community healing framework informed by multidisciplinary scholarship: Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling ( C-HeARTS). Three major components of the framework are delineated: (a) justice as both a condition of and an outcome of community healing; (b) culturally syntonic processes (i.e., storytelling and resistance) that direct the renarrating of trauma and act as conduits for transformation; and (c) psychological dimensions (i.e., connectedness, collective memory, and critical consciousness) that promote justice-informed outcomes. In the C-HeARTS framework, community is advanced as an agent of change while centering justice and the important role of cultural practices to facilitate community healing.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1824267
PAR ID:
10277181
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Black Psychology
Volume:
46
Issue:
2-3
ISSN:
0095-7984
Page Range / eLocation ID:
95 to 121
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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