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New directions in ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness development: Contextual considerations in the
1Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA.
Abstract:
Though ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness have often been studied in isolation, numerous racialized and sociopolitical events that occurred during COVID-19 offer a unique opportunity to study how youth of color's understandings of ethnicity and race overlap with their understandings of racial inequality. This review article examines how families, schools, and digital sociopolitical contexts facilitated youth of color's understandings of their own racial self-concept while simultaneously shaping the experiences with and resistance to racial inequality. I conclude with a call to scholars to consider the role of context in the integrated study of these two salient developmental processes in the lives of youth of color.
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