Validating the Impacts of Racism and Microaggressions on BIPOC Youth: Overcoming Academic and Psychological Barriers (Poster 6): Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities, 9:47 AM

• In Event: e-Lightening Ed-Talk Session 16

Abstract

Young people of color are directly impacted by racist and discriminatory practices in a multitude of ways. Such experiences are particularly detrimental when they take place within educational settings consumed with a lack of cultural awareness, racist rhetoric, and low expectations for minoritized youth. This paper presents a study examining the experiences of BIPOC adolescents with racism, discrimination, and microaggressions during their time in high school. A school counselor and professor of counselor education along with a professor of graduate psychology present results of this study, shedding light on how racist and discriminatory practices in educational spaces negatively impact youth. The authors discuss tangible approaches aimed at student reattribution and toward stereotype-breaking and adaptive motivational self-perceptions that reinstates student agency.

Authors

• Qiana Spellman, St. John's University

• Kelly Kent, Antioch University - Los Angeles

• Christopher Emdin, Teachers College, Columbia University