User profiles for LaShawnDa Pittman

LaShawnDa L. Pittman

University of Washington
Verified email at uw.edu
Cited by 300

Incorporating measures of structural racism into population studies of reproductive health in the United States: a narrative review

JG Alson, WR Robinson, LSD Pittman, KM Doll - Health Equity, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Purpose: Black women in the United States face poor outcomes across reproductive health
measures—from pregnancy outcomes to gynecologic cancers. Racial health inequities are …

[BOOK][B] Relational poverty politics: Forms, struggles, and possibilities

…, R Nagar, G Negron-Gonzales, LSD Pittman… - 2018 - books.google.com
This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against
poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what …

'Dying from'to 'living with': Framing institutions and the coping processes of African American women living with HIV/AIDS

C Watkins-Hayes, LSD Pittman-Gay… - Social Science & Medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
How do HIV-positive individuals transition from believing and behaving as though they have
a ‘death sentence’ to interpreting and coping with HIV as a chronic but manageable illness? …

Doing What's right for the baby: Parental responses and custodial grandmothers' institutional decision making

LSD Pittman - Women, Gender, and Families of …, 2014 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Recent changes in kinship care policy produce a range of care-types for grandparents
raising their grandchildren, from informal kinship care to adoption. The unprecedented …

How well does the “safety net” work for family safety nets? Economic survival strategies among grandmother caregivers in severe deprivation

LSD Pittman - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2015 - rsfjournal.org
Using qualitative data collected from fifty-eight African American grandmothers raising
grandchildren in skipped-generation households (SGHs), I reveal how and why women in non-…

[BOOK][B] The African American experience: psychoanalytic perspectives

…, F Hamer, D Holmes, PD Leary, C Miles, LSD Pittman… - 2012 - books.google.com
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Salman Akhtar
brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of …

“It was love in all the buildings they tore down”: how caregiving grandmothers create and experience a sense of community in Chicago Public Housing

LSD Pittman, D Oakley - City & Community, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
About 16,000 families residing in Chicago's public housing have been relocated over the
last two decades through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Housing …

[BOOK][B] Grandmothering while black: a twenty-first-century story of love, coercion, and survival

LSDL Pittman - 2023 - books.google.com
In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex
lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (…

Grandparents as caregivers for grandchildren with intellectual and developmental disabilities

LSD Pittman, J Nodvin, M Howett - Health Care for People with Intellectual …, 2016 - Springer
Although there are more grandparents raising grandchildren than at any other time in American
history, the experiences of those caring for children with intellectual and developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Dancin'on the Plantation

N Carlson, LSD Pittman - afram101autumn2015.wordpress …
During the slavery era all around the world it was extremely important for slaves to be able
to unite as a community to build and retain family ties in a variety of ways with music, dance, …