title: Representations of African Americans in the Grief and Mourning Literature from 1998 to 2014: A Systematic Review.
abstract: The authors examined representations of African Americans in the grief literature to assess (a) frequencies; (b) content; and (c) use of universalist or a contextualized framework. They conducted searches in 3 databases that target the grief literature published in the last 15 years. Fifty-nine articles met the criteria. There are a small number of studies published on African Americans and these tend to focus on homicide. Many studies had incomplete methods. Comparison studies were common and pathological grief outcomes that were validated on White populations were used as outcome variables with African American participants.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer Sheva , Israel.
authors.forename: Leeat
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Granek
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer Sheva , Israel.
authors.forename: Tal
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Peleg-Sagy
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015706:Bibliometrics; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans