Documenting Racial Disparities or Disrupting Racism?

Abstract

Workforce support for urban after-school programs: turning obstacles into opportunities.

Possible unintended consequences of pediatric clinician strategies for communicating about social-emotional and developmental concerns in diverse young children.

“…Bottom-up and top-down training and systems engagement may be key to providing a sound and effective strategy that bolsters clinician confidence in having direct discussions about risk equitably across families with varied lived experiences. Centering strategies within developmental and pediatric antiracism frameworks for young children’s care and well-being may prove useful in this quest (Beard et al, 2022; Iruka et al, 2022; Rogers & Heard-Garris, 2023; Slopen & Heard-Garris, 2022).…”

Reconsidering Normative Interpretations in Personality Research

“…Those with privilege who conform to dominant cultural expectations and experience a kind of positive adjustment, may be doing so at the expense of others as systems of oppression are maintained (McLean, 2024). And those who are structurally marginalized and conform to harmful practices in socio-cultural contexts that deny their reality and experiences, may actually experience an increase in their own stress and disease (e.g., Chen et al, 2023; see also Rogers & Heard-Garris, 2023). In other words, why should we expect people to want to adjust to a context that denies their reality, is oppressive, and otherwise responsible for perpetuating harm?…”

Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience

“…For example, some models raise the importance of social identity concepts, such as race, as a part of the context of resilience (e.g., Troy et al, 2023), but make no mention of racism. Here the race of the person, or the murkily defined 'effect of race' is an independent variable (Zuberi & Bonilla-Siva, 2008), not the systemic racism in which the person is embedded (Rogers & Heard-Garris, 2022). In the context of wealth, the values of American corporate capitalism necessitate hierarchy and inequality, and a valuing of the 'product' over the person (e.g., Kasser et al, 2007), meaning that to be resilient in a capitalist system is to uphold a hierarchical and dehumanizing system by achieving wealth.…”