title: Narratives of Stress in Health Meanings of African Americans in Lake County, Indiana.
abstract: Across the life course, African Americans bear an unequal burden of disease compared to other racial groups. In spite of the widespread acknowledgment of racial health disparities, the voices of African Americans, their articulations of health and their local etiologies of health disparities are limited. In this article, we highlight the important role of communication scholarship to understand the everyday enactment of health disparities. Drawing upon the culture-centered approach (CCA) to co-construct narratives of health with African Americans residents of Lake County, Indiana, we explore the presence of stress in the everyday narratives of health. These narratives voice the social and structural sources of stress, and articulate resistive coping strategies embedded in relationship to structures.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communications and New Media , National University of Singapore.
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.affiliation: b Department of Communication , University of Cincinnati.
authors.forename: Shaunak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sastry
authors.affiliation: c College of Communication , DePaul University.
authors.forename: Sydney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dillard
authors.affiliation: d Department of Communication , Central Connecticut State University.
authors.forename: Rati
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: e Department of Marketing Communication , Emerson College.
authors.forename: Agaptus
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anaele
authors.affiliation: f Communications , Purdue University.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: g Indiana Minority Health Coalition.
authors.forename: Calvin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roberson
authors.affiliation: h The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication , Arizona State University.
authors.forename: Uttaran
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.affiliation: i Department of Communication , University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: g Indiana Minority Health Coalition.
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gillespie
authors.affiliation: j Department of Communication , University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spinetta
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D033262:Narration; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*