Healing Black Futures: Black Youth Organizing to Redefine Destiny

Ortega-Williams, Anna

doi:10.1080/10428232.2023.2301164

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“…Our findings suggest that more information is needed about the types of critical action that youth participate in and the communities they engage with through their changemaking to determine if and when critical action can support the mental health of Black adolescents. For example, qualitative work with Black youth organizers suggests that communal forms of critical action can function as collective self-care, which can support the healing of Black youth from intergenerational racial trauma and support them in mobilizing towards a "healed Black future" [60,61]. Understanding the nuances of how Black youth engage in critical action (e.g., in community vs. in isolation, low-risk actions vs. high-risk action) can provide insights into how to support critical consciousness development, while prioritizing the health and well-being of Black youth.…”

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confidence: 99%

Racism and Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Critical Consciousness for Black Adolescents

Hope,

Golden,

Anyiwo

2024

Youth

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This study examined experiences of individual, institutional, and cultural racism, along with critical consciousness (i.e., critical reflection, critical agency, critical action), and how they are associated with mental health outcomes for Black adolescents (N = 604; Mage = 15.4; 47.4% female). Consistent with previous research, we found that more experiences of racism were associated with more mental health distress for Black adolescents. We also found that the relationship between racism and mental health varied by critical reflection and critical action, in a three-way interaction effect. The positive association between racism and mental health distress was weaker for the Black adolescents in our sample who reported higher than average critical reflection and lower than average critical action. This evidence suggests that the reflection and action components of critical consciousness, together, can serve as an adaptive coping strategy to guard against the harm racism can cause to mental health. Black adolescents experience less mental health distress when they have a deep understanding of oppression, but do not engage heavily in actions to dismantle those unjust systems. These findings have implications for how youth researchers and practitioners can support critical consciousness development in ways that do not compromise adolescent mental health.

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Section: Critical Action Alone Is Not Enoughmentioning

confidence: 99%