The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses that were tested quantitatively. Analysis of interviews revealed parents' concerns with obeying the law, avoiding interaction with others, teaching children how to deal with discrimination, the importance of transmitting their culture, and concerns for their children's ever-present fear and stress. Path analysis showed that undocumented parents utilized more cultural socialization and promotion of mistrust messages than their documented counterparts. More promotion of mistrust, in turn, was associated with higher levels of adolescent depressive symptoms. Given the current sociopolitical climate and ethnic-racial tensions in the United States, it is imperative to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the nuanced ERS practices Latinx families employ to both cope with and respond to this situation.
Psychological research on sexual harassment is limited in critical and meaningful engagement with intersectionality theory. Accordingly, we detail how an intersectional framework may be used to advance the understanding and empirical investigation of sexual harassment among Black queer women. By cohering sexual harassment and intersectionality theories, we highlight the limitations of single-axis (gender-only) conceptualizations of sexual harassment. We then argue that through intersectional invisibility, scholars have overlooked sexual harassment among marginalized groups of women, namely, Black queer women. We conclude with a call to action and recommendations for how scholars may incorporate an intersectional framing into future research and social advocacy.
What is the significance of this article for the general public?Sexual harassment is currently in the national spotlight, giving researchers a rare opportunity to conduct and disseminate scholarship to the public's listening ear. However, most sexual harassment research describes a narrow subgroup of women: those who are heterosexual, cisgender, and White. Thus, it is imperative that current and future research does justice to the sexual harassment experiences of the Black queer women, who are often at the forefront of calls for change.
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