The Ubuntu Approach in Project SOAR (Speaking Our African American Realities): Building a robust community-academic partnership and culturally curated focus groups

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 314; p. 115452
• Main Authors: Denyse, Tammie, Martin, Kimberly J., Stanton, Annette L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2022
• Subjects: African American/Black; Black or African American; Black superwoman schema; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms; Cancer; Community-Based Participatory Research - methods; Community-Institutional Relations; Female; Focus group; Focus Groups; Humans; Strong black woman schema; Breast cancer; Strong black woman schema; Black superwoman schema; African American/Black; Focus group; Cancer

Community-academic partnerships to enable research within minoritized communities are ever more important. Building on community-based participatory research frameworks, the Ubuntu Approach is offered as a set of principles for initiating and supporting meaningful and productive community-academic r...