Looking within

Elevating Black scholarly contributions to empirical approaches in developmental science

Bibliographic Data

ID8713513
AuthorsIsabelle M Elisha (0000-0003-2973-2486, corresponding author), Juliana E Karras (0000-0002-2482-4050), Martin D Ruck (0000-0002-3015-2203)
Year2023
Volume78
Issue4
Pages512-523
Publication date2023-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037/amp0001055
PMID37384504
OpenAlexW4382562636
LanguageEN
Citations received1

Over the past century, Black American scholars have designed, applied, and promoted conceptual frameworks and research models that propose nuanced understandings of psychological development. This article highlights examples of their contributions to understanding the differential impact of diverse contextual and situational factors. Through examinations of the psychological effects of Blackness on the development of cognition, competence, identity, and social functioning, Black psychologists outline pathways and provide tools for ecological culturally rooted methodologies. These multidisciplinary approaches run in contrast to dominant trends in the field and thus broaden developmental science's reach and influence. In the 1950s, developmental research by Black psychologists was instrumental to the fight for civil rights. Today, it continues to provide a basis for advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Cognition · Developmental psychology · Developmental Science · MEDLINE · Multidisciplinary approach · Political science · PsycINFO · Situational ethics · Social science · Sociology · Career Development and Diversity · Early Childhood Education and Development · Psychology · Psychology of Development and Education · Social Psychology

Tools

Open DOI