CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF THE INTERNALIZED RACIAL OPPRESSION SCALE by Tamba-Kuii M. Bailey Racism has been identified as a profoundly traumatic and a psychologically damaging experience affecting Black people (Harrell, 2000; White & Parham, 1990; Williams & Williams-Morris, 2000). It has been theorized that one of the most devastating effects racial oppression (i.e. racism and discrimination) is ...

How should one respond to racial oppression? Conventional prescriptions of mainstream social psychological science emphasize the idea of coping with oppression—whether via emotional management strategies that emphasize denial or disengagement; problem-focused strategies that emphasize compensation, self-efficacy, or skills training; or collective strategies that emphasize emotional support—in w...

Abstratct. People with dementia who live in care homes can have very little social interaction. Care staff have limited time to spend with each person and communication difficulties can make it difficult to get to know the person with dementia as a person. This paper presents Portrait a software tool to enable care staff to get to know a person with dementia quickly. An initial usability study ...

When forming their preferences about the distribution of income, rational people may be caught between two opposite forms of “tyranny.” Giving absolute priority to the worst-off imposes a sort of tyranny on the rest of the population, but giving less than absolute priority imposes a reverse form of tyranny where the worst-off may be sacrificed for the sake of small benefits to many well-off ind...

The British dramatist Mary Pix’s (1666–1709) play Czar of Muscovy (1701) has received limited and inconsistent critical attention compared to her other plays. This paper offers a fresh analysis the play, which depicts rule Russian pretender Dmitry Ivanovic, lasted from 1605 1606 when he was killed in an uprising. reading centralizes history false during Time Troubles his dramatic role as figura...

This article focuses on the confrontation that broke out sometime in 709 or 710 CE between a hundred men led by members of Banū Fahm and Umayyad governor Egypt, Qurra b. Sharīk. After presenting case question, explains who participated conflict, what their motives expectations were, how failure these resulted with his troops. I suggest although early Muslim historians depicted conflict religiou...

As an outstanding African-American author who has got fame for her tragic novel, Toni Morrison is well-known depiction of black experiences as slaves. She expert in portraying characters are dealing with the after-effect their ancestral traumas. Morrison`s community weighed down by heavy burden rejection, oppression, racism, and white dominance, so they burdened a wounded psyche body, therefore...