Grief and Racial Paranoia
Jennifer C. Schmahl
University of Cincinnati Grief can be described as the the emotional, cognitive, functional and behavioral responses to the death (Zisook and Shear, 2009). Grief is experienced by an estimated 13 million people per year (Friedman and James, 2009). The adverse effects of grief on the sufferer include disturbed sleeping and eating patterns, difficulty concentrating, increased rate of suicide, and increased rate of heat attack (Friedman and James, 2009). Most studies conducted to explain American grief experience have focused on the Caucasian culture and few studies have focused on how different cultural groups express grief (Eisenbruch, 1984; Rosenblatt, 1988 in Laurie and Neimeyer, 2008). Each person’s experience with grief is unique and culture influences that.
Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness, written by John L. Jackson Jr., gives insight into the modern day experience of racism which is no longer out in the open as it was in previous decades, but hidden underneath the veil of political correctness. Jackson addresses the mistrust that African Americans feel about the world around them because they no longer know who is a racist and who is not (Jackson, 2008). Racial Paranoia …show more content…
Jackson presents racial history in an evolutionary manner that doesn’t imply that it is getting better in a linear way, but that it evolving into something that is more difficult to define and more difficult to identify. Jackson’s view of racial paranoia offers many more viewpoints of how racism is perceived than I have previously know. Racial Paranoia challenges the readers to put language to this type of racism so that debates can be had about how racism is played out modern time which is difficult because of the fact that it cannot be
Jennifer C. Schmahl
University of Cincinnati Grief can be described as the the emotional, cognitive, functional and behavioral responses to the death (Zisook and Shear, 2009). Grief is experienced by an estimated 13 million people per year (Friedman and James, 2009). The adverse effects of grief on the sufferer include disturbed sleeping and eating patterns, difficulty concentrating, increased rate of suicide, and increased rate of heat attack (Friedman and James, 2009). Most studies conducted to explain American grief experience have focused on the Caucasian culture and few studies have focused on how different cultural groups express grief (Eisenbruch, 1984; Rosenblatt, 1988 in Laurie and Neimeyer, 2008). Each person’s experience with grief is unique and culture influences that.
Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness, written by John L. Jackson Jr., gives insight into the modern day experience of racism which is no longer out in the open as it was in previous decades, but hidden underneath the veil of political correctness. Jackson addresses the mistrust that African Americans feel about the world around them because they no longer know who is a racist and who is not (Jackson, 2008). Racial Paranoia …show more content…
Jackson presents racial history in an evolutionary manner that doesn’t imply that it is getting better in a linear way, but that it evolving into something that is more difficult to define and more difficult to identify. Jackson’s view of racial paranoia offers many more viewpoints of how racism is perceived than I have previously know. Racial Paranoia challenges the readers to put language to this type of racism so that debates can be had about how racism is played out modern time which is difficult because of the fact that it cannot be