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Confronting the Cost of Racism for People of Color, Second Edition
This fully updated edition highlights new research on the impact of racism on people of color, emphasizing models of hope, healing, strength, resiliency, and resistance.
Practicing Decolonial and Liberation Psychologies
American Psychologist's special issue highlights decolonial and liberation psychologies in diverse global contexts.
Foundational Contributions of Black Scholars in Psychology
Special issue of APA's journal American Psychologist, Vol. 78, No. 4, May-June 2023. This special issue intervenes on anti-Black racism at the epistemic level by honoring the past and present contributions of Black scholars to psychology.
Ignoring Race and Denying Racism: A Meta-Analysis of the Associations Between Colorblind Racial Ideology, Anti-Blackness, and Other Variables Antithetical to Racial Justice [PDF]
This study aimed to better understand how colorblind racial ideology, or the denial and minimization of race and racism, may serve as a barrier to engaging in antiracist praxis.
Racial Trauma: Theory, Research, and Healing
Special issue of the APA journal American Psychologist, Vol. 74, No. 1, January 2019. The articles introduce new conceptual approaches, research, and healing models to challenge racial trauma.
The Cost of Racism for People of Color: Contextualizing Experiences of Discrimination
In this book, leading scholars examine the felt experience of being the target of racism, with a focus on mental and physical health as the result of particular racist encounters as well as across the lifespan, in addition to group contexts such as education and the workforce.
The Myth of Racial Color Blindness
In this edited volume, social scientists dissect the concept of color blind racial ideology, the widely-held belief that skin color does not affect interpersonal interactions, and that interpersonal and institutional racism therefore no longer exists in America.
Perceived Racism and Mental Health Among Black American Adults: A Meta-Analytic Review [PDF]
This study was designed to examine the association between perceptions of racism and mental health among Black Americans through a statistical review of the empirical literature.
