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Forging Diversity‐Science‐Informed Guidelines for Research on Race and Racism in Psychological Science
Author(s) -
Miller Andrea L.,
Stern Chadly,
Neville Helen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/josi.12356
Subject(s) - racism , race (biology) , oppression , scholarship , diversity (politics) , sociology , identity (music) , field (mathematics) , social psychology , gender studies , psychology , political science , politics , anthropology , law , physics , mathematics , acoustics , pure mathematics
As race and racism continue to be important subjects of research in psychology, guidelines for scholarship in this domain of inquiry are strongly needed. Drawing from the foundations of previous discussions of diversity science, we propose five principles that can help scholars conduct generative research on race and racism. Specifically, research on race and racism is strengthened when scholars: (1) are mindful of historical patterns of oppression and inequality, (2) adopt a racially diverse team science approach, (3) utilize diverse samples, (4) consider the influence of multiple identity groups on human experience, and (5) promote the translation of knowledge from the laboratory to the field. In outlining our proposed guidelines, we elaborate on why this discussion for research about race and racism is needed at this particular point of the field's history.