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Black Canadians' Coping Responses to Racial Discrimination

Justine Joseph

University of Windsor, josephj{at}uwindsor.ca

Ben C. H. Kuo

University of Windsor

On the basis of a cultural coping framework, the present study examined coping responses to racial discrimination among 190 Black Canadians. The study assessed the respondents' coping with both general (i.e., problem- and emotion-focused coping) and Africultural coping strategies (i.e., spiritual-centered, collective, and ritual-centered coping) across three different racial discrimination vignettes (i.e., interpersonal, institutional, and cultural discrimination). Furthermore, three individual and cultural difference variables, African self-consciousness, social desirability, and past race-related stress, were controlled in the analyses. As predicted, the results of the profile analysis and multivariate analyses showed that both general and Africultural coping were used by the participants in responding to all three types of discrimination. Additionally, differential coping patterns were found depending on the context of racial discrimination. Overall, the study suggests that Black Canadians are exposed to multiple race-related stressors that require them to adopt a flexible repertoire of general and culture-specific coping strategies.

Key Words: Blacks • coping behavior • racial discrimination

This version was published on February 1, 2009

Journal of Black Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 1, 78-101 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0095798408323384
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