Ep. 47: Fathering Series: What does systemic racism look like when researching families of colour?

When we look at research, especially in the realm of development, we tend to focus on things like resilience, struggles families face, and so on. This is particularly true when we look at the research on parenting in families of colour - the focus starts with what's wrong and how we can fix it. It was under this guise that I approached Dr. Erika Bocknek as she had done research on resilience in Black Fathers that was - I thought - interesting. What we talked about ended up being quite different with a much larger focus on the inherent racism that exists in the research questions and assumptions themselves, especially when we look at Black Fathers. I hope that you will all find this as eye-opening and important a conversation as I did because we need to recognize these problems before we can start to fix them. Dr. Erika Bocknek: Research:

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Ep. 47: Fathering Series: What does systemic racism look like when researching families of colour? is an episode from Evolutionary Parenting Podcast by Tracy Cassels, PhD.

This episode is 01:01:05 long.

This episode was published on Nov 19, 2021.

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