3-012 - African Americans’ Race-Related Experiences across the Lifespan: Contributions of Gender and Context

Session Type: Poster Symposium

Integrative Statement

The studies offered in this student poster symposium further contribute to our understanding of the race-related experiences of African Americans. Moreover, this symposium examines how gender and context impacts these race-related experiences as well as subsequent adjustment. Specific contributions of this student poster symposium include: 1) exploration of race-related experiences and processes across the lifespan (early adolescence; mid-adolescence; emerging adulthood; adulthood); 2) examination of how gender and context directly and indirectly influence race-related experiences; 3) utilization of various methodological approaches (e.g., quantitative; focus groups, participatory action research); and 4) representation of diverse research and theoretical perspectives relating to the race-related experiences of African Americans (e.g., multi-institutional representation). Using longitudinal data, study 1 examines how child reports of racial discrimination experiences, parents’ and youths’ race centrality are related to parents’ subsequent socialization practices. The second investigation, which employs a qualitative framework, explores gender-related differences in African American parents’ racial socialization messages. Study 3 examines the moderating roles of both gender and socioeconomic status in the association between racial discrimination and emerging adults’ psychological adjustment. Study 4 investigates the moderating role of child gender in the relationship between African American fathers’ parenting self-efficacy and their universal and culturally specific parenting practices. Last, using a youth participatory action research model, the fifth investigation examines the lived experiences around schooling among African American adolescent boys. In sum, this innovative student symposium highlights the contributions of gender and context in relation to the race-related experiences of African Americans across the lifespan.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Chair

• Shauna M Cooper, University of South Carolina--Columbia

Discussant

• Lionel Howard, George Washington University

Individual Presentations

• 1. Children’s Racial Discrimination Experiences and Parents’ Race Centrality Influence Racial Socialization of Black Adolescents - Presenting Author: Vanessa Volpe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Adam J. Hoffman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Beth E Kurtz-Costes, Univ of N Carolina-Chapel Hill

• 2. Qualitative Investigation of Gender Differences in Parental Racial Socialization Messages - Presenting Author: Justin Williams, Georgia State University; Ciara P Smalls-Glover, Georgia State University

• 3. The Moderating Roles of Gender and SES in the Association between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Adjustment - Presenting Author: Donte Bernard, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Enrique W Neblett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 4. Parenting Self-Efficacy and African American Fathers' Parenting Practices: The Moderating Role of Adolescent Gender - Presenting Author: Alexandrea Golden, University of South Carolina at Columbia; Shauna M Cooper, University of South Carolina--Columbia

• 5. In Their Own Words: Engaging Black Boys and Their Lived Experiences Around Schooling - Presenting Author: Adrian Gale, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Chauncey Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Robert Jagers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor