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A Resistance Framework for Racially Minoritized Youth Behaviors During the Transition to Adulthood
Author(s) -
Bounds Dawn T.,
Posey Patricia D.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12792
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , psychology , transition (genetics) , positive youth development , work (physics) , youth studies , inequality , developmental psychology , social psychology , mechanical engineering , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematical analysis , mathematics , biology , engineering , gene
The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a challenging time marked by rapid changes in relational connections, housing status, and academic or work trajectories. We emphasize how structural inequality shapes racially minoritized youth behaviors and center the potential for resistance, arguing that a resistance lens allows us to deepen our understanding of the transition to adulthood for racially minoritized youth. Throughout the paper, we include research on how racially minoritized youth experience marginalizing institutional structures concurrently across multiple systems and their resulting behaviors. We end with the clinical and research implications of a resistance framework to illuminate resistance‐informed responses such as rethinking risk and creating spaces for youth‐led self‐making, youth–adult partnerships to scaffold transitions, and cultivating youth activism.