scholarly journals Perceived racial discrimination and racial identity profiles among African American adolescents.

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor K. Seaton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Perceived Racial Discrimination

scholarly journals Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination, and Classroom Engagement Outcomes Among Black Girls and Boys in Predominantly Black and Predominantly White School Districts

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1318-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seanna Leath ◽  
Channing Mathews ◽  
Asya Harrison ◽  
Tabbye Chavous
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Predominantly Black ◽  
Public Regard

This study examined the associations among racial identity beliefs (centrality and public regard), racial discrimination, and academic engagement outcomes among 1,659 African American adolescents across two demographically distinct school districts, one predominantly Black, working class ( n = 1,100) and one predominantly White, middle class ( n = 559). Across these districts, the youths reported that race was a central aspect of their identity and demonstrated varying levels of public regard. Racial discrimination was negatively associated with academic curiosity and persistence, but this effect was moderated by gender and racial identity. Our findings demonstrate the harmful influence of discrimination on the academic engagement of African American adolescents and the protective roles of racial identity beliefs across gender and school racial contexts.

scholarly journals Associations between trajectories of perceived racial discrimination and psychological symptoms among African American adolescents

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 1049-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia A. Smith-Bynum ◽  
Sharon F. Lambert ◽  
Devin English ◽  
Nicholas S. Ialongo
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mixture Modeling ◽  
Growth Mixture ◽  
Discrimination Group ◽  
Perceived Racial Discrimination

AbstractMany African American adolescents experience racial discrimination, with adverse consequences; however, stability and change in these experiences over time have not been examined. We examined longitudinal patterns of perceived racial discrimination assessed in Grades 7–10 and how these discrimination trajectories related to patterns of change in depressive and anxious symptoms and aggressive behaviors assessed over the same 4-year period. Growth mixture modeling performed on a community epidemiologically defined sample of urban African American adolescents (n= 504) revealed three trajectories of discrimination: increasing, decreasing, and stable low. As predicted, African American boys were more frequent targets for racial discrimination as they aged, and they were more likely to be in the increasing group. The results of parallel process growth mixture modeling revealed that youth in the increasing racial discrimination group were four times more likely to be in an increasing depression trajectory than were youth in the low stable discrimination trajectory. Though youth in the increasing racial discrimination group were nearly twice as likely to be in the high aggression trajectory, results were not statistically significant. These results indicate an association between variation in the growth of perceived racial discrimination and youth behavior and psychological well-being over the adolescent years.

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