{"id":2008,"date":"2021-02-01T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/this-black-history-month-better-understand-the-role-of-the-black-family\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T00:37:51","slug":"black-history-month-the-role-of-the-black-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/black-history-month-the-role-of-the-black-family\/","title":{"rendered":"This Black History Month, better understand the role of the Black family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3394-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3394-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3394-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"This Black History Month, better understand the role of the Black family\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  The Black family has been \u201creverenced, stereotyped and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time,\u201c says the The Association for the Study of African American Life and History. (Photo: Nechirwan Kavian, Unsplash)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>This Black History Month, better understand the role of the Black family<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC experts weigh in on the Black family, which has been \u201creverenced, stereotyped and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time,\u201d according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. <strong>[3\u00bd min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Jenesse Miller<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">February 1, 2021<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 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     >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>This year\u2019s national theme of Black History Month is \u201cBlack Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity\u201d \u2014 a focus of study in various disciplines such as history, anthropology, literature, sociology and the arts.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asalh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association for the Study of African American Life and History<\/a>, which decides the theme each year, says the Black family has been \u201creverenced, stereotyped and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Black families torn apart by slavery, prisons and pandemic<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Enduring slavery, segregation and Jim Crow, and persistent structural racism has come at a painful cost to Black families, said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/hist\/people\/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1085644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaina Morgan<\/a>, an assistant professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/\">history<\/a>\u00a0at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican legislators run their platforms on ideas of \u2018family values\u2019 and the \u2018sanctity of the family,\u2019 but support for Black families has always been excluded from these imperatives,\u201d said Morgan, who researches the institutional structures that destabilize the Black family along with stabilizing forces such as religion, particularly Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack families have always occupied a precarious social position, dating back to the antebellum period when Black men and women could not be legally married, Black children were not permitted the luxury of acting as such, and Black mothers and fathers never knew when they could be shipped to a different plantation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, with rates of mass incarceration ripping Black men and increasingly Black women away from children and COVID-19 killing Black people at disproportionately higher rates, the Black family remains under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Racism continues to be a hazard to Black families\u2019 health<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The newest threat to the Black family, the COVID-19 pandemic, is especially lethal because of another ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor centuries, Black families have shouldered the ramifications of discrimination and structural racism,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1080488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April Thames<\/a>, associate professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/psyc\/\">psychology<\/a>\u00a0and psychiatry at USC Dornsife and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keck School of Medicine of USC<\/a>. \u201cThis is glaringly evident when examining Black-white disparities in health, health care and racial trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thames, who recently authored a study that showed that genes that promote inflammation are expressed more often in Blacks than in whites, said exposure to racism factors into the disparities in health outcomes, including illness and death from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth disparities are tied to the biological impact of racism on health as well as blocked opportunities to access equitable and optimal health care,\u201d she explained. \u201cHistoric displacement, exclusion and segregation of Black families across the country continues to be a deadly threat to the physical and mental health of Black Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rev.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crcc.usc.edu\/people\/najuma-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Najuma Smith-Pollard<\/a>, a pastor and program manager for USC Dornsife\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crcc.usc.edu\/events-and-training\/murraycenter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement<\/a>, described attending to Black families who can barely grieve one death before they learn of another family member succumbing to the coronavirus. \u201cBlack History Month feels like a cheap consolation prize for all that Black families are enduring, including suspended grief \u2014 grief that they can\u2019t actually process because there are too many deaths,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenge of celebrating much of anything, she added, in honor of Black History Month \u201cwe will look to the narratives of our ancestors, the trailblazers and the legend makers, and we will find hope and create some new stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Finding hope and thriving against the odds<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>It isn\u2019t just the outsized, headline-grabbing achievements that should be celebrated during Black History Month, noted Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that I would love to see during Black History Month is moving away from just thinking about Black activists and leaders and thinking about what it is that normal people do every day to fight institutional racism, oppression, brutality and violence \u2014 including this enormous task of keeping the Black family strong,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Pollard agreed that the resilience of Black families should be acknowledged. She provided examples of community members delivering groceries to older adults, patrons supporting Black-owned businesses, and particularly the determined students in elementary schools and colleges who are continuing their studies virtually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/The-Rose-That-Grew-From-Concrete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roses do grow in concrete<\/a>, to quote Tupac Shakur,\u201d she said. \u201cBlack families are roses growing in the midst of concrete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/181179\/black-history-month-family-inequality-racism-usc-experts\/\"><i>See USC News for more on the story &gt;&gt;<\/i><\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC experts weigh in on the Black family, which has been \u201creverenced, stereotyped and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time,\u201d according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. <strong>[3\u00bd min read]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[497,496,520,62,150],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","tag-alaina-morgan","tag-april-thames","tag-black-history","tag-covid-19","tag-dei-story"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Black History Month, better understand the role of the Black family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"USC experts weigh in on the Black family, which has been \u201creverenced, stereotyped and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time,\u201d according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. 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