African American Women and Breast Cancer | Social and Behavioral Interventions | Handbook of African American Health
Part I Background of Social and
... [Show More] Behavioral Health Disparities
Interventions Among African Americans
1 Conceptual, Operational, and Theoretical Overview of African American
Health Related Disparities for Social and Behavioral Interventions ........................... 3
Anthony J. Lemelle
2 Ethics and Intervention Programming ........................................................................... 35
Cynthia Hudley
Part II Fundamental Intervention Needs
3 Health, Nutrition, Access to Healthy Food and Well-Being
Among African Americans............................................................................................... 47
Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith
4 Promoting Physical Activity in Black Children and Adolescents: Intervention
Strategies Health Practitioners Have Put into Play....................................................... 61
Raegan A. Tuff and Billy Hawkins
Part III Major Lifestyle Intervention Considerations
5 Reducing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities: Using Mass
Media Campaigns to Prevent Smoking and Increase Cessation
in Underserved Populations ............................................................................................. 79
Jane A. Allen, Donna M. Vallone, and Amanda K. Richardson
Part IV Important Interventions for Children
6 Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning............................................................................ 103
Wornie Reed
7 Contemporary Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Community
Violence Among African American Youth ..................................................................... 113
Duane E. Thomas, Elizabeth M. Woodburn, Celine I. Thompson,
and Stephen S. Leff
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African American Identity and Group Relations
There are many definitions of African American identity. Earlier the chapter accounted for a small
fraction of this variation. Below the chapter considers selected important African American group
experiences. Conceptually, we could treat the African American identity category as an aggregate
or we could treat the identity category as a group. It might be best to treat the African American
category as a group. For instance, Kurt Lewin’s concept of life-space is helpful in understanding the
importance of group membership. Lewin argued that individuals’ psychological activities occur
within the psychological field that he called the life-space. The life-space consists of all past, present,
and future events that assists in influencing and shaping individuals. Each of the events contributes
to behavioral responses in particular situations. In addition, the life-space also contains an individual’s
needs in social interaction with the psychological environment (Lewin, Gentile, & Miller, 2009).
Health behaviors intimately connect to life space. Moreover, performing health behaviors are group
situations. Lewin defined the group in the following way:
It is today widely recognized that a group is more than, or, more exactly, di
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