Browsing by Author "Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L."

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    Black Joy, Full Participation, and the University Classroom
    (American Academy of Religion, 2022) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
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    Cultural Trauma Scale (CuTs): Parsimonious Principal Component Analysis, Independent Black American Male Sample
    (Taylor & Francis, 2024) Gregory, Virgil L., Jr.; Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.; School of Social Work
    Psychometric research is necessary to facilitate reliable and valid measurement of Black men’s perceptions of cultural trauma. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the factor structure and internal consistency of the Cultural Trauma Scale (CuTS), using a more parsimonious factor model. The study used a community-engaged framework and was approved by an Institutional Review Board for research with human participants. A principal component analysis with equamax rotation (N = 240) was conducted. The CuTS factors were replicated and measured constructs of Tripartite Police Fear (Cronbach’s alpha = .83), Beliefs about America and It’s Justice System (Cronbach’s alpha = .84), Black Injustice Emotions (Cronbach’s alpha = .74), Cognitive-Behavioral Coping (Cronbach’s alpha = .75), Willingness to Seek Cultural Trauma Treatment (Cronbach’s alpha = .74), and Resilience (Cronbach’s alpha = .64). The pattern/structure coefficients within these subscales ranged from .50 to .87. With a slight variation, the results of the present study replicated the initial CuTS factor structure using a more parsimonious measurement model. The factorial validity and internal consistency of the CuTS will advance the reliable and valid measure of Black-oriented constructs among Black men.
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    Diasporic Dances: Theological Musings Betwixt and Between Blackness
    (Taylor & Francis, 2017) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
    This article brings Black theology in conversation with the diasporic character of Black identity as well as critical theorizing on late capital. By being attentive not only to the normative racializing strategy in the United States, but also attending to the persistence of color caste systems, the contemporary movement of global bodies and theories, and impact of multiple performances of Blacknesses on racial identification, this article argues for a new theological method. This attempt to "trouble" Black race and the Black body, its use in theological scholarship, and to identify its descriptive and analytic deficiencies are facilitated by conversations with African theology, critical race theory, Kelly Brown Douglas and Judith Bulter’s theories on gender and performance. Finally, this article argues for a theology of diaspora that takes seriously the troubling of race, the reconsideration of embodiedness, and the excavation of difference and variety as a liberatory project.
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    I Want to Break Free: Abolition and Full Participation in the Religious Studies Classroom
    (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
    “I Want to Break Free: Abolition and Full Participation in the Religious Studies Classroom” explores how the framework of abolition provides a model for organizing the religious studies classroom, challenging hegemonic disciplinary practices, and rethinking the contemporary implications of the carceral state. This chapter engages my course, “Religion Behind Bars,” as a space where religious communities and university classrooms are studied as sites and cyphers for abolition. Students and I use Vincent Lloyd and Joshua Dubler’s Break Every Yoke and Fred Moten’s The Undercommons as texts to think through the processes of abolition, full participation, and breaking free. Ultimately, I illustrate that this technique enables students to more thoughtfully engage the relationship between the carceral state, studying religion, and the idea of full participation. “Breaking Free,” therefore, becomes a way to do close readings of religions and the carceral state, as well as prepare students for a new relationship to engaged citizenship.
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    Revisiting Frederick Douglass and the Nineteenth Century Religious Imagination
    (Institute for American Thought, 2024) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.; McKivigan, John R.
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    The Other Side of Dissatisfied Affiliation: Race, Religion, and the Vision of Carlton Pearson
    (Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program, 2024-10-28) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
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    The Racial Pandemic Experienced by Black American Men: Cognitive–Behavioral and Structural Implications
    (APA, 2023) Gregory , Virgil L., Jr.; Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.; School of Social Work
    Issues of systemic racism, mass incarceration, and cultural trauma (CT) are linked to emotional sequelae sufficient for treatment. However, attempts to explain the psychosocial reactions of Black American (BA) men to racial injustice and treat CT must be considered in the context of the current and past structural environments in which they live. The purpose of the present study was to obtain in-depth, thick description of two related factors: BA males’ perceptions of injustice during the racial pandemic and the consequent psychosocial implications for theory and treatment. An interview guide addressing racial injustice, CT, and coping was used to conduct individual and focus groups’ interviews with 20 BA men. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The qualitative analysis found five themes that collectively fulfilled the study’s aims: (1) A violation of the social contract for Black American men, (2) Black American male distrust for police, (3) tripartite Black American male, police fear and heterogeneous emotions, (4) spiritual, technological, appraisal, and relational Black American male coping for racial injustice, and (5) Black American male resilience despite permanence of the racial status quo. As it pertains to BA male racial injustice and the residual CT, the qualitative data suggested multidimensional interventions that are cognitive–behavioral and structural in nature may be worthy of further empirical investigation. From a CT intervention perspective, the five emerging themes can be directly translated into cognitive–behavioral principles regarding therapeutic rapport, cultural adaptation, emphasis on positivity, and collaborative empiricism when working with BA men.