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Adult and Continuing Education

2019

Florida International University

Financial literacy programs

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Examination Of Black Men's Perceptions Of Personal Finance And Lived Experiences Developing Financial Literacy And Building Financial Capability Through The Lens Of Institutional Racism, Jonathan B. Abdullah Jan 2019

Examination Of Black Men's Perceptions Of Personal Finance And Lived Experiences Developing Financial Literacy And Building Financial Capability Through The Lens Of Institutional Racism, Jonathan B. Abdullah

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This phenomenological study examined Black men’s perceptions of their personal finances and their lived experiences developing financial literacy and building financial capability through the lens of institutional racism. Institutional racism was used as the conceptual framework to examine the participants lived experiences. Institutional racism works to disadvantage minorities and simultaneously provide privileges to Whites through organizational and institutional policies, practices, and treatment (Unzueta & Lowery, 2008).

Purposive sampling was used to obtain 16 participants for this study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the data from the participants and were analyzed using the Moustakas’s (1994) Modification of Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen Method of …