Adultification of Black children negatively impacts their health: Recommendations for health care providers

Koch, Amie; Kozhumam, Arthi Shankar

doi:10.1111/nuf.12736

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“…The age range of participants in this study demonstrates that gendered racism happens across the lifespan. Black girls are often viewed as more adult than their white counterparts (Epstein et al, 2017), and the adultification of Black girls impacts their physical health outcomes (Koch & Kozhumam, 2022). Future research should explore Black girls’ first gynecological visits and experiences of gendered racism.…”

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Resistance and Gendered Racism: Middle-Class Black Women's Experiences Navigating Reproductive Health Care Systems

Howell

2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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A core issue in reproductive justice concerns how racism impacts reproductive health outcomes for Black women. However, the intersectional experiences of middle-class Black women navigating racism in reproductive health systems have not been fully captured in psychological literature. By utilizing a Black feminist approach to qualitative inquiry, this study situates the psychological dynamics behind middle-class Black women's interpretations of and reactions to gendered racism in reproductive settings within the historical context of slavery and its aftermath. The data analysis of 12 interviews captures how middle-class Black women reflect on their interactions with gynecologists, narrate their anticipation of gendered racism, and interpret and respond to experiencing gendered racism. Findings from this study suggest that gendered racism is a haunting of embodied gynecological trauma that maps onto the historical legacy of slavery. This study offers psychology an empirical and analytical framework for moving forward with its conceptualizations of how race, gender, and class intersect in service of reproductive justice. Results from this study can be used by clinicians to guide their clients towards healing gendered-racist-related stress, as well as medical schools to educate obstetricians and gynecologists on how to provide anti-racist care to their Black patients.

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Resistance and Gendered Racism: Middle-Class Black Women's Experiences Navigating Reproductive Health Care Systems

Howell

2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Making the scene even more troubling is that it endangers children. The officer’s patronizing attitude toward Pyro, calling him a “kid” but treating him as an adult, evokes the dangerous and detrimental American history of “adultrification” of Black children ( Koch and Kozhumam, 2022 ; CPE Staff, 2023 ). A 2014 American Psychological Association study of police behavior towards young Black boys found that “dehumanization and not police officers’ prejudice against Blacks—conscious or not—was linked to violent encounters with Black children in custody” ( APA, 2014 ; Goff et al, 2014 ).…”

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Genetics in the X-Men film franchise: mutants as allegories of difference

Grimsted,

Krizner,

Porter

et al. 2024

Front. Genet.

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This article analyzes the complete corpus of live-action X-Men movies for their depictions of genetics and otherness. The researchers watched and qualitatively coded all thirteen movies produced by 20th Century Fox that take place in the same shared cinematic universe, beginning with X-Men (2000) and ending with The New Mutants (2020). The X-Men movies are unusual summer blockbusters since they explore genetic topics through their central characters, mutants, who are genetically different from their non-mutant peers. Mutants in the films evoke a plurality of analogies, such as mutant-as-Black and mutant-as-queer. These intersecting metaphors build upon a core of genetic difference to create a versatile but limited picture of prejudice, solidarity, and otherness.

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“…The concept of adultification has largely been absent in child protection discourse and literature (Davis & Marsh, 2020), and it refers to the process where Black children and youth are severed from childhood and are considered more "adult-like" than other racial-ethnic groups (Davis & Marsh, 2020; Gilmore & Bettis, 2021; Koch & Kozhumam, 2022). Research indicates that Black children are perceived as older and less innocent than their white peers (Goff et al, 2014), and this perception may influence the way they are treated by both workers and systems.…”

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“…Research indicates that Black children are perceived as older and less innocent than their white peers (Goff et al, 2014), and this perception may influence the way they are treated by both workers and systems. Adultification of Black young people contributes to dehumanizing and pathologizing stereotypes that assume they need less nurturing, allow them to be treated more harshly, and represent them as more independent (Epstein et al, 2017;Koch & Kozhumam, 2022). It is connected to a larger legacy of anti-Black racism that has prematurely and inappropriately pushed Black children and youth into social, emotional, and physical adult roles before fully obtaining adulthood (Gilmore & Bettis, 2021; Koch & Kozhumam, 2022).…”

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“…Adultification of Black young people contributes to dehumanizing and pathologizing stereotypes that assume they need less nurturing, allow them to be treated more harshly, and represent them as more independent (Epstein et al, 2017;Koch & Kozhumam, 2022). It is connected to a larger legacy of anti-Black racism that has prematurely and inappropriately pushed Black children and youth into social, emotional, and physical adult roles before fully obtaining adulthood (Gilmore & Bettis, 2021; Koch & Kozhumam, 2022). Anti-Black racism shapes this process and the conditions that intersect with the identities and experiences of Black communities, including perceptions of Black children (Gilmore & Bettis, 2021).…”

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Pushed, Dropped, or Fleeing from Care: The Narratives and Adultification of Black Youth Who Have Aged out of Ontario’s Child Welfare System

Edwards

Chowdhury

Laylor

et al. 2023

Child & Youth Services

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Black youth have consistently reported that when they are transitioning from out-of-home care (OOHC) into independence, they are not supported or included in decision-making, and they feel isolated and vulnerable as they face an uncertain future. Previous research has documented the ways in which Black youths' experiences in care are characterized by unpredictability and loss, but then care ends-and they continue to struggle. For Black youth in care, this transition can be exceptionally difficult as they are contending with the additional strain of doing so within the child welfare system and larger social context characterized by a loss of community and the persistence of anti-Black racism. Presently, there are no empirical studies in Ontario that investigate Black youth's narratives transitioning from OOHC; this manuscript seeks to fill this gap in knowledge. Employing Adultification and Anti-Black Racism Theory as theoretical frameworks, this qualitative study investigated the narratives of 27 Black youth with lived experiences navigating OOHC in Ontario's child welfare system. This study utilized narrative inquiry as a methodological approach. Three main narratives were identified: (1) the need for finances and a financial literacy; (2) narratives of aging out and (3) the challenges of navigating funding. To better support Black youth in their transition out of care and in independent living, recommendations for policy and practice include earlier transitional support, ensuring youth have a practical understanding of financial literacy, and educating youth about resources and their rights.

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Adultification of Black children negatively impacts their health: Recommendations for health care providers

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Resistance and Gendered Racism: Middle-Class Black Women's Experiences Navigating Reproductive Health Care Systems

Resistance and Gendered Racism: Middle-Class Black Women's Experiences Navigating Reproductive Health Care Systems

Genetics in the X-Men film franchise: mutants as allegories of difference

Pushed, Dropped, or Fleeing from Care: The Narratives and Adultification of Black Youth Who Have Aged out of Ontario’s Child Welfare System

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