Category: 2024

Empowering Behaviors to Address Race with Kids (EmBARK): A Racial Socialization Program for White Families

Applied Developmental Psychology (2024) Authors: Katharine E. Scott, Nicole Huth, Eren Fukuda, Kristin Shutts, Patricia G. Devine Abstract: We evaluated the EmBARK (Empowering Behaviors to Address Race with Kids) program, which we developed to help White parents in the US address race and racial biases with their White 5- to 7-year-old children. Parents (N = …

Immigrant’s Death at the Border: Do They Influence White and Latinx Americans’ Belief in the American Dream?

Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy (2024) Authors: Alexa Vega Rivas, Ella Ben Hagai, and Christine Starr Abstract: In this study, we test a clashing narrative approach to conflict, which argues that political conflict is based on opposing narratives that negate one another. We focus on the role of two master narratives central to political …

pSTEM Implicit Stereotypes and pSTEM Motivation Among Black and Latina Undergraduate Women: The Role of Gender and Ethnic/Racial Typicality

Sex Roles (2024) Authors: Christine R. Starr and Alan Meca Abstract: Implicitly stereotyping pSTEM (physical sciences, technology, engineering, and math) with Asian and White men can demotivate Black and Latina women in pSTEM. However, theory suggests that stereotypes might not affect all members of a group in the same way. In a sample of 345 undergraduate …

A Turn to Assets in Community-Based Computing Research: Tradeoffs, Deficits, and Neoliberalism in Technological Development

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (2024) Authors: Jean Hardy and Jacob Thebault-Spieker Abstract: CSCW and HCI scholars are increasingly adopting asset-based approaches to community-based social computing research. Emerging from asset-based community development (ABCD), an approach to community and economic development research and practice that emerged in the 1990s, advocates for asset-based approaches argue that …

Lived Experience, Shared Knowledge: Reimagining Community-Driven Science Communication Research

Science Communication (2024) Authors: Todd P. Newman, Lillie D. Williamson & Micheal A. Xenos Abstract: This essay advocates for a transformative, community-centric approach to science communication, promoting inclusivity and recognizing the impact of lived experiences. We challenge the prevalent population-centric approach and underscore the importance of engaging persistently marginalized communities, notably Black Americans. Drawing from health …

Second-Generation Decline: Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans

Sociological Focus (2024) Authors: Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, Yanica F. Faustin & Deshira D. Wallace Abstract: Studies show that Black immigrants have better cardiovascular health than African Americans, but few have explored the reasons for these disparities. While we know that the cardiovascular health of Black immigrants worsens over time in the United States, much less …

Changes and Stagnation in Contemporary Racial Stereotypes

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (2024) Authors: Tory Ash, Katharine E. Scott, Megan Bruun, and Patricia Devine Abstract: Generations of researchers have studied the extent to which the content and consistency of stereotypes about Black people have changed over time. At best, the evidence is mixed with some findings suggesting changes in stereotypes and other …

Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level

Socius (2024) Authors: Alex Mikulas, Brenden Beck, and Max Besbris Abstract: Although rates of residential racial segregation and home prices are undoubtedly related, the temporal nature of the relationship has rarely been studied. Using fixed effects models in a cross-lagged framework, we examine how prior changes in segregation and home prices at the metro level …

Evaluation of a Virtual Culturally Aware Mentoring Workshop for Biomedical Faculty

The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching (2025) Authors: Stephanie House, Angela Byars-Winston, Ellyssa Eiring, Sylvia Hurtado, You-Geon Lee, Richard McGee Abstract: The Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) workshop was developed to help biomedical faculty gain awareness and skills to work more effectively with racially and ethnically minoritized mentees. The purpose of this paper is to present …

Study Protocol for a Mixed Method, Three-Arm Cluster Randomized Comparative Trial Testing the Impact of Culturally Aware Mentoring Interventions on Research Mentors and Graduate Training Programs

Protocols.io (2024) Authors: Ellyssa Eiring, Angela Byars-Winston, Stephanie C. House, You-Geon Lee, Richard McGee, Remi F. Jones, Sylvia Hurtado, Amanda Carrasco Abstract:  Research mentoring relationships are critical for developing the next generation of scientists. However, research mentors have seldom recognized how cultural differences can influence mentoring relationships, particularly for individuals from backgrounds historically underrepresented in …