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5 - Adolescents’ Developmental Pathways to Critical Consciousness in the Contexts of Racial Oppression and Privilege

from Part I - Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2023

By
Laura Wray-Lake ,
Jason A. Plummer  and
Lauren Alvis
Edited by
Luke J. Rapa  and
Erin B. Godfrey
Luke J. Rapa
Affiliation:
Clemson University, South Carolina
Erin B. Godfrey
Affiliation:
New York University
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Summary

Dismantling systems of racial oppression requires that people from many different racial and ethnic backgrounds become critically conscious in challenging racial injustices. Youth’s pathways to critical consciousness may be very different depending on youth’s experiences with racial oppression and privilege. This chapter brings together relational developmental systems and critical race and intersectionality theories and existing research that can offer insights into different underpinnings and processes related to youth of color and white youth’s critical consciousness development. We also show how mapping complex variations in critical reflection, motivation, and action and situating these processes within contexts of oppression and privilege can advance understanding of critical consciousness development. We conclude by summarizing promising future directions for theory and research.

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youthheterogeneityracial identitydevelopmental systemssystemic racismwhitenesssociopolitical developmentcivic engagement
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Critical Consciousness
Expanding Theory and Measurement
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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