Marginalized Identities, Trump‐Related Distress, and the Mental Health of Underrepresented College Students

Albright, Jamie N.; Hurd, Noelle M.

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“…In short, we are in the midst of a profound and extensive mental health crisis throughout academia. No one is immune, although the potential mental health risks of participating in academia are compounded on an order of magnitude for faculty and students of color or from other marginalized groups (Albright & Hurd, 2020; Iacovino & James, 2016; Laden & Hagedorn, 2000; The Steve Fund, 2020; Woodford et al, 2014) whose risks included shouldering the majority of service work, gaps in promotion rates (Liu et al, 2019; Weisshaar, 2017), and harassment (Mansfield et al, 2019).…”

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Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing

Johnson

Lester

2021

American J Hum Biol

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Mental health concerns among university populations are on the rise. Faculty and students report increasing levels of depression, stress, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. These mental health crises reduce overall wellness and inhibit the educational process. We identify uncertainty, financial stress, disruptions to social networks, burnout, and the contemporary social/political climate as key triggers for mental health crises for faculty and students. Faculty are in a position to provide support to one another and their students and as such, we provide strategies that attend to these triggers and complement other forms of intervention. We do not intend these “hacks” to supplant structural change or reputable medical advice; rather, they are intended to help focus attention on the importance and magnitude of mental health concerns in academia and to offer some strategies that faculty can implement.

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Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing

Johnson

Lester

2021

American J Hum Biol

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“…Although some of these participants may have been motivated prior to Trump’s presidency, his election gave them a new sense of urgency to engage in social issues. Engagement in action is one way that emerging adults, particularly those with marginalized identities, are coping with Trump‐related distress (Albright & Hurd, 2020). Our study contributes to community psychology literature on how individuals interact with their environment when engaging in social action.…”

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“…The motivations and barriers of emerging adults in less diverse and more socially conservative regions of the United States may differ from the perspectives found in this paper, and thus, warrant additional exploration. Moreover, this study took place after the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, which introduced considerable social and political change, including increased discriminatory policies and prejudiced rhetoric (Albright & Hurd, 2020). Therefore, some of the emergent adults’ motivations and barriers could be unique to the current sociopolitical climate of the United States.…”

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Emerging Adults' Social Justice Engagement: Motivations, Barriers, and Social Identity

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Anderson

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American J of Comm Psychol

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This study examines emerging adults’ perceived motivations and barriers to social justice engagement, and how their social identities shape involvement. We conducted in‐depth interviews with service‐learning students (n = 30). Thematic analysis of interview data revealed that participants perceived several motivations and barriers to engagement, including the following: (a) the current political climate, (b) self‐efficacy to make small‐scale changes, (c) social support in action, (d) proximity to the social issue, (e) knowledge of resources, and (f) limited personal resources. Participants also described how their identities shaped engagement such that participants reflected upon their multiple privileged and marginalized identities and how their identities influenced their approach to engaging with a particular social issue. Findings have implications for recruiting and sustaining emerging adults’ involvement in activities aimed at changing social issues.

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“…The immense popularity of memes during the 2020 election can thus not only be explained by an increase in registered Twitter users alone, but also has to be attributed to 2020 being a year unlike any other: Both rising political tensions and a pandemic led to a renewed interest in the outcome of the elections as well as an unusually high par-U M C S ticipation via social media. During the four years of the Trump administration, political tensions rose with hate crimes increasing (Koski and Bantley 2020) and particularly people of marginalized identities self-reporting "Trump-Related Distress" (Albright and Hurd 2020). Furthermore, a global pandemic forced millions of people to spend most of their year socially isolated in their own homes which "stimulate[d] citizens' social media activity, which shows in their prolific production of digital humour, commonly called 'memes', about COVID-19" (Dynel 2021) among other issues.…”

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Dildoshops, Gritty, and Bernie’s Mittens: The Framing of American Politics Through Pop Cultural Memes

Wurst

2021

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An unprecedented number of memes emerged in response to the 2020 U.S. presidential elections. This article offers a thematic analysis of a corpus of memes published on Twitter between November 3, 2020 and January 20 2021 in relation to the U.S. presidential election. By further employing a qualitative discourse analysis and close readings of selected examples, this article explores the stances and intertextual references expressed in the memetic discourse. I illustrate which events users engage with, how they frame them using the elements of American pop culture, and the different functions such memes served for different publics. Central events – such as Donald Trump’s press conference in a Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot, Joe Biden’s victory and rumors about the Russian president Putin resigning – were commented upon both with broad references to widely popular franchises such as Star Wars and with multi-layered intertextual references to iconography of meme culture such as the Hockey mascot Gritty. Memes exaggerated events for comedic purposes, providing relief after a long time of tension, as well as possibly trivializing and distorting public perception of events. While meme activity peaked on November 6th and 7th, a singular viral meme of Bernie Sanders emerged after Joe Biden’s inauguration, illustrating a different genre of meme as a response to a different political situation in which the political figure serves a wide variety of purposes in commenting upon popular culture. Such memes served to establish a sense of community, agency, and catharsis after the anxieties many Democratic voters experienced prior to the election. These findings present the growing role of popular and fan culture to political discourse on mainstream social media platforms and their varied and highly flexible expression.

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Marginalized Identities, Trump‐Related Distress, and the Mental Health of Underrepresented College Students

Cited by 33 publications

References 93 publications

Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing

Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing

Emerging Adults' Social Justice Engagement: Motivations, Barriers, and Social Identity

Dildoshops, Gritty, and Bernie’s Mittens: The Framing of American Politics Through Pop Cultural Memes

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