They were just waiting for me to mess up”

A critical discourse analysis of immigrant Latinx teens' perceptions of power dynamics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11044271
AutoresYesenia Merino (0000-0003-0404-7108, Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina, autor de correspondencia), Tainayah Thomas (0000-0001-9094-8556, Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina), Alexandra F Lightfoot (0000-0002-9681-5081, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Alexandra Lightfoot (Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina), Eugenia Eng (Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina), Florence M Simán, Florence Simán (El Pueblo, Inc. Raleigh North Carolina), Kari Thatcher (Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina), Mimi V Chapman (0000-0002-4057-9243, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Mimi Chapman (School of Social Work University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina)
Año2020
Volumen48
Número2
Páginas605-622
Fecha de publicación2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jcop.22276
PMID31705821
OpenAlexW2985512396
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas30

This paper explores Latinx adolescents' perceptions of power dynamics with authority around them. We seek to inform how community‐based professionals engage with and seek to understand members of this population. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of data collected during a community action photovoice project with 13 Latinx adolescents living in a metropolitan region of the southeastern United States. Participants felt they were under greater surveillance scrutiny by authority figures in social and academic spaces than their non‐Latino peers. They discussed ways their movements were at times constrained because others presumed they were deviant, and how that affected their identity development. Judgments and assumptions held by both powerful adults and oppressed groups alike serve to reinscribe social stratification that places Latinx adolescents at a power disadvantage relative to their white peers. These experiences and understandings of power relations shape the circuitous racial dispossession of youth

Disadvantage · Geography · Identity (music) · Immigration · Metropolitan area · Perception · Photovoice · Political science · Population · Power (physics) · Scrutiny · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Demography · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support