It’s About Time Black Lives Matter: The Urgency of Research on Black Youth Development

The events of the past decade underscore with withering banality the depth of American racism and the disturbing normalcy of racial trauma Black adolescents endure every day. I comment on the significance of the timing and scope of the Special Issue. I also highlight the contributions that push new...

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Published in:Journal of research on adolescence 2022-03, Vol.32 (1), p.302-306
Main Author: Smith‐Bynum, Mia A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Adolescent
Adolescent development
Adolescents
African Americans - psychology
Black Lives Matter movement
Black people
Blacks
Emotional development
Ethnic identity
Ethnicity
Gender identity
Humans
Identity formation
Institutional change
Intersectionality
Racial identity
Racial socialization
Racism
Racism - psychology
Social development
Socialization
Teenagers
Trauma
United States
Urgency
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Summary:The events of the past decade underscore with withering banality the depth of American racism and the disturbing normalcy of racial trauma Black adolescents endure every day. I comment on the significance of the timing and scope of the Special Issue. I also highlight the contributions that push new boundaries on established topics such as ethnic‐racial identity, racial socialization, emotional development, gender, and via application intersectionality theory. These articles illuminate the multilayered, textured lives of Black adolescents in the early 21st century. The commentary concludes with a call for researchers to leverage the findings from empirical studies on Black adolescents to foster anti‐racist institutional change.
ISSN:1050-8392
1532-7795
DOI:10.1111/jora.12735