Family Influences on Racial Identity Among African American Youth

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Townsend ◽  
Erin Lanphier
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Family Influences

Exploring the Impact of Skin Tone Perception on Race-Related Outcomes and Familial Functioning Among African American Youth: Implications for African-Centered Interventions

2021 ◽  
pp. 104438942110271
Author(s):  
Husain Lateef ◽  
Heather Smyth ◽  
Maya Williams ◽  
Adrian Gale ◽  
Ed-Dee Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Tone Perception ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Racism and its ramifications are salient societal-level factors that detrimentally affect African American youth and families. Few studies have investigated how African American youth experience discrimination within families and society and colorism’s impact on racial identity, despite extensive racial discrimination research. We assessed whether the perceptions of African American youth of their skin tone affected their racial identity, familial functioning, and everyday discrimination, using the National Survey of American Life–Adolescent Supplement data. We found no significant relationships among skin tone perception, racial identity, familial functioning, or everyday experiences of discrimination. Conversely, age and gender differences were significant predictors of racial identity, family functioning, and discrimination reports. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for social work practice.

scholarly journals The Moderating Capacity of Racial Identity Between Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being Over Time Among African American Youth

2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 1850-1867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor K. Seaton ◽  
Enrique W. Neblett ◽  
Rachel D. Upton ◽  
Wizdom Powell Hammond ◽  
Robert M. Sellers
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Over Time

Cultivating a Morality of Care in African American Adolescents: A Culture-Based Model of Violence Prevention

1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janie Ward
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Oppression ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
Racial Solidarity

In this article, Janie Ward looks at the historical traditions of caring, interdependence, and valuing justice within the African American community. She posits that what has been lost to African American youth enmeshed in the violence of U.S. society is an awareness that aggression is a violation of the care and connectedness implicit in the notion of Black racial identity and community. Ward concludes that a solution to youth violence may lie in reconnecting African American teens to the communal values and traditions that have allowed Blacks to develop racial identity and racial solidarity in spite of their economic and social oppression in the United States.

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