Lauren Mims
Biographic Data
| ID | 903675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Mims |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Mims |
| SIGNATURE | MIMS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4801-5311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The moms all Agree on one Thing: ” Black Women’s Perspectives on Key Agenda Items for the Next President of the United States
How do direct and vicarious racism and connectedness in school contexts matter for adolescent suicidality
Suicide-related fatality has disproportionately risen among racial-ethnic minoritized youth in the past decade and remains at high levels for white youth. With schools as a primary context for adolescent development, this study examines associations of direct and vicarious racial-ethnic-based victimization and school connectedness with past-year active suicidal ideation (SI) and psychological distress during adolescence. Cross-sectional data from…
Why wouldn’t I be able to do it?”: The Role of STEM Socialization in Nurturing Black Girls’ STEM Interest and Engagement
Research has underscored stark disparities in STEM interest, degree attainment, and employment among Black girls and women, highlighting systemic barriers that resulted in a long history of exclusion. However, few studies have centered the supportive mechanisms that aid in Black girls’ resistance and reclamation of STEM spaces. The current study addresses this gap by exploring how Black caregivers incorporate STEM socialization and nurture Black …
Black women caregivers’ homeplace fortification in response to negative news media
My Greatness Made a Difference There”: Exploring the High School Experiences of High Achieving Black Girls
Recent studies have provided insight into the schooling experiences and lives of Black girls. These studies highlight the challenges that Black girls face in the school environment including underachievement, disproportionality in school discipline, deficit ideologies, and educator and counselor bias. The current study centers the voices on high achieving Black girls in an effort to center their unique and nuanced experiences in high school. Data…
Black Girl Magic is everything: Recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls
The concept of #BlackGirlMagic has resonated with Black women and Black girls across the world. Black Girl Magic is as unique as a fingerprint and serves as an invitation for Black girls to be present as their true, most powerful selves. In reflecting on the power of Black Girl Magic for Black girls as 5 Black women in psychological science and education, we describe 3 recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls to be magica…
Coming Together Educationally Creates a Bond Like No Other: Exploring How Families Engage in Black History Home Learning
Black home learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic may have played a significant role in children's learning. We piloted Brilliant Joy in a Box, caregiver-child Black history home learning boxes, with a sample of 100 families in a predominantly Black, midwestern city. Families received boxes for six months and completed whole family activities during virtual "unboxings." In the current study, we explored caregivers' ( n = 57) open-ende…
“Free Black Children…That Means Everything”: Black Mother’s Visions of Freedom Within a Radical Healing Framework
In the present qualitative study, we draw from a psychological framework of radical healing in communities of color to explore Black mother’s perspectives on what it means to raise free, Black children in the anti-Black racial context of the United States of America. Specifically, we consider the extent to which Black mother’s descriptions about supporting their children’s freedom involve new cultural and social norms that integrate personal well…
A Black feminist study of freedom, community care, and self-definition among Black college women attending predominantly White institutions
“Listen when I come to the table”: Reimagining education with and for Black elementary-aged youth and their mothers
Much of the literature regarding Black youth experiences in schools considers the effects of racism and takes up inquiry through deficit views. Yet, to understand how to shift the system of schooling to provide equitable, liberatory learning experiences, it is critical to center Black children’s voices and perspectives. In the current study, we partnered with eleven Black elementary youth and their mothers to explore their dreams for re-imagining…
Black Brilliance and Creative Problem Solving in Fugitive Spaces: Advancing the BlackCreate Framework Through a Systematic Review
Traditional definitions and assessments of creativity often neglect to identify the complexity surrounding Black students’ brilliance, leading to lack of access and funding. Further, even when recognized, Black students are often funneled into programs that do not facilitate positive development of their racial-ethnic identity. Through our systematic review of 155 publications, we developed the BlackCreate Framework to illustrate how effective Bl…
“They Need to Hear Our Voices”: A Multidimensional Framework of Black College Women’s Sociopolitical Development and Activism
Black women have played an integral role in Black liberation struggles. Yet there is little psychological scholarship on Black women’s contribution to social justice movements, particularly beyond conventional forms of activism, such as protesting and voting. To address this gap, the current study draws on Black feminist epistemology to present a multidimensional framework of Black college women’s sociopolitical development. Using consensual qual…
I Can be Unapologetically Who I Am”: A Study of Friendship Among Black Undergraduate Women at PWIs
The current study explores Black undergraduate women’s friendships using in-depth interview data from 47 women (18–24 years) attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs) in the United States. Drawing on consensual qualitative research methods, we considered the nature and importance of Black female friendships among Black undergraduate women. We identified the following themes: (a) friendship as a tool to mitigate bias and discrimination; (b…
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics
A growing number of scholars have considered how young Black women develop their identities within and against White supremacist ideologies of Black womanhood. The current study offers an analysis of how the ongoing socialization of respectability politics in some Black family contexts can contribute to the vilification of the ‘the wrong type’ of Black girls and women. Using Black feminism as a theoretical and methodological lens, we explored how…
From Apathy to Vigilance: Young Adolescents’ Reactions to the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville
The present study examined middle school students' responses to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Using a consensual qualitative research approach, we analyzed interviews from 73 local, seventh-grade students (58% female; 55% students of color) to explore the range of students' emotional responses and cognitive engagement with the events. The resulting six profiles document heterogeneity in meaning-making and personal i…
They Told Me What I Was Before I Could Tell Them What I Was: Black Girls’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Development Within Multiple Worlds
Current research on ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development among Black youth derives primarily from studies that focus on the impact of parental racial socialization from a racial/monoidentity perspective without accounting for the roles of youth’s other worlds (i.e., schools, classrooms, and peers) and the intersection of their social identities in their identity development experiences. In using Phelan, Davidson, and Cao’s Multiple Worlds mod…
Finding Home: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Adolescent Mothers’ Housing Instability
Many low‐income Latina adolescent mothers face instability in their housing circumstances, which has implications for their long‐term prospects and that of their children. This study used longitudinal, ethnographic data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three‐City Study to explore experiences of low‐income, Latina adolescent mothers ( N = 15) with unstable housing who primarily rely on their families or the families of their significant oth…
They Told Me What I Was Before I Could Tell Them What I Was: Black Girls’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Development Within Multiple Worlds
Current research on ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development among Black youth derives primarily from studies that focus on the impact of parental racial socialization from a racial/monoidentity perspective without accounting for the roles of youth’s other worlds (i.e., schools, classrooms, and peers) and the intersection of their social identities in their identity development experiences. In using Phelan, Davidson, and Cao’s Multiple Worlds mod…
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics
A growing number of scholars have considered how young Black women develop their identities within and against White supremacist ideologies of Black womanhood. The current study offers an analysis of how the ongoing socialization of respectability politics in some Black family contexts can contribute to the vilification of the ‘the wrong type’ of Black girls and women. Using Black feminism as a theoretical and methodological lens, we explored how…
Black Girl Magic is everything: Recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls
The concept of #BlackGirlMagic has resonated with Black women and Black girls across the world. Black Girl Magic is as unique as a fingerprint and serves as an invitation for Black girls to be present as their true, most powerful selves. In reflecting on the power of Black Girl Magic for Black girls as 5 Black women in psychological science and education, we describe 3 recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls to be magica…
A Black feminist study of freedom, community care, and self-definition among Black college women attending predominantly White institutions
Finding Home: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Adolescent Mothers’ Housing Instability
Many low‐income Latina adolescent mothers face instability in their housing circumstances, which has implications for their long‐term prospects and that of their children. This study used longitudinal, ethnographic data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three‐City Study to explore experiences of low‐income, Latina adolescent mothers ( N = 15) with unstable housing who primarily rely on their families or the families of their significant oth…
Black women caregivers’ homeplace fortification in response to negative news media
My Greatness Made a Difference There”: Exploring the High School Experiences of High Achieving Black Girls
Recent studies have provided insight into the schooling experiences and lives of Black girls. These studies highlight the challenges that Black girls face in the school environment including underachievement, disproportionality in school discipline, deficit ideologies, and educator and counselor bias. The current study centers the voices on high achieving Black girls in an effort to center their unique and nuanced experiences in high school. Data…
From Apathy to Vigilance: Young Adolescents’ Reactions to the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville
The present study examined middle school students' responses to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Using a consensual qualitative research approach, we analyzed interviews from 73 local, seventh-grade students (58% female; 55% students of color) to explore the range of students' emotional responses and cognitive engagement with the events. The resulting six profiles document heterogeneity in meaning-making and personal i…
Finding Home: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Adolescent Mothers’ Housing Instability
Many low‐income Latina adolescent mothers face instability in their housing circumstances, which has implications for their long‐term prospects and that of their children. This study used longitudinal, ethnographic data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three‐City Study to explore experiences of low‐income, Latina adolescent mothers ( N = 15) with unstable housing who primarily rely on their families or the families of their significant oth…
From Apathy to Vigilance: Young Adolescents’ Reactions to the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville
The present study examined middle school students' responses to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Using a consensual qualitative research approach, we analyzed interviews from 73 local, seventh-grade students (58% female; 55% students of color) to explore the range of students' emotional responses and cognitive engagement with the events. The resulting six profiles document heterogeneity in meaning-making and personal i…
They Told Me What I Was Before I Could Tell Them What I Was: Black Girls’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Development Within Multiple Worlds
Current research on ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development among Black youth derives primarily from studies that focus on the impact of parental racial socialization from a racial/monoidentity perspective without accounting for the roles of youth’s other worlds (i.e., schools, classrooms, and peers) and the intersection of their social identities in their identity development experiences. In using Phelan, Davidson, and Cao’s Multiple Worlds mod…
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics
A growing number of scholars have considered how young Black women develop their identities within and against White supremacist ideologies of Black womanhood. The current study offers an analysis of how the ongoing socialization of respectability politics in some Black family contexts can contribute to the vilification of the ‘the wrong type’ of Black girls and women. Using Black feminism as a theoretical and methodological lens, we explored how…
“Listen when I come to the table”: Reimagining education with and for Black elementary-aged youth and their mothers
Much of the literature regarding Black youth experiences in schools considers the effects of racism and takes up inquiry through deficit views. Yet, to understand how to shift the system of schooling to provide equitable, liberatory learning experiences, it is critical to center Black children’s voices and perspectives. In the current study, we partnered with eleven Black elementary youth and their mothers to explore their dreams for re-imagining…
Black Brilliance and Creative Problem Solving in Fugitive Spaces: Advancing the BlackCreate Framework Through a Systematic Review
Traditional definitions and assessments of creativity often neglect to identify the complexity surrounding Black students’ brilliance, leading to lack of access and funding. Further, even when recognized, Black students are often funneled into programs that do not facilitate positive development of their racial-ethnic identity. Through our systematic review of 155 publications, we developed the BlackCreate Framework to illustrate how effective Bl…
“They Need to Hear Our Voices”: A Multidimensional Framework of Black College Women’s Sociopolitical Development and Activism
Black women have played an integral role in Black liberation struggles. Yet there is little psychological scholarship on Black women’s contribution to social justice movements, particularly beyond conventional forms of activism, such as protesting and voting. To address this gap, the current study draws on Black feminist epistemology to present a multidimensional framework of Black college women’s sociopolitical development. Using consensual qual…
I Can be Unapologetically Who I Am”: A Study of Friendship Among Black Undergraduate Women at PWIs
The current study explores Black undergraduate women’s friendships using in-depth interview data from 47 women (18–24 years) attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs) in the United States. Drawing on consensual qualitative research methods, we considered the nature and importance of Black female friendships among Black undergraduate women. We identified the following themes: (a) friendship as a tool to mitigate bias and discrimination; (b…
“Free Black Children…That Means Everything”: Black Mother’s Visions of Freedom Within a Radical Healing Framework
In the present qualitative study, we draw from a psychological framework of radical healing in communities of color to explore Black mother’s perspectives on what it means to raise free, Black children in the anti-Black racial context of the United States of America. Specifically, we consider the extent to which Black mother’s descriptions about supporting their children’s freedom involve new cultural and social norms that integrate personal well…
A Black feminist study of freedom, community care, and self-definition among Black college women attending predominantly White institutions
Black women caregivers’ homeplace fortification in response to negative news media
My Greatness Made a Difference There”: Exploring the High School Experiences of High Achieving Black Girls
Recent studies have provided insight into the schooling experiences and lives of Black girls. These studies highlight the challenges that Black girls face in the school environment including underachievement, disproportionality in school discipline, deficit ideologies, and educator and counselor bias. The current study centers the voices on high achieving Black girls in an effort to center their unique and nuanced experiences in high school. Data…
Black Girl Magic is everything: Recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls
The concept of #BlackGirlMagic has resonated with Black women and Black girls across the world. Black Girl Magic is as unique as a fingerprint and serves as an invitation for Black girls to be present as their true, most powerful selves. In reflecting on the power of Black Girl Magic for Black girls as 5 Black women in psychological science and education, we describe 3 recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls to be magica…
Coming Together Educationally Creates a Bond Like No Other: Exploring How Families Engage in Black History Home Learning
Black home learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic may have played a significant role in children's learning. We piloted Brilliant Joy in a Box, caregiver-child Black history home learning boxes, with a sample of 100 families in a predominantly Black, midwestern city. Families received boxes for six months and completed whole family activities during virtual "unboxings." In the current study, we explored caregivers' ( n = 57) open-ende…
Why wouldn’t I be able to do it?”: The Role of STEM Socialization in Nurturing Black Girls’ STEM Interest and Engagement
Research has underscored stark disparities in STEM interest, degree attainment, and employment among Black girls and women, highlighting systemic barriers that resulted in a long history of exclusion. However, few studies have centered the supportive mechanisms that aid in Black girls’ resistance and reclamation of STEM spaces. The current study addresses this gap by exploring how Black caregivers incorporate STEM socialization and nurture Black …
The moms all Agree on one Thing: ” Black Women’s Perspectives on Key Agenda Items for the Next President of the United States
How do direct and vicarious racism and connectedness in school contexts matter for adolescent suicidality
Suicide-related fatality has disproportionately risen among racial-ethnic minoritized youth in the past decade and remains at high levels for white youth. With schools as a primary context for adolescent development, this study examines associations of direct and vicarious racial-ethnic-based victimization and school connectedness with past-year active suicidal ideation (SI) and psychological distress during adolescence. Cross-sectional data from…
Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works)