TY - JOUR
T1 - A Retrospective Analysis of Racial Discrimination Experiences for Latinx Adolescents and Young Adults
AU - Pasco, Michelle C.
AU - Flores-González, Nilda
AU - Atkin, Annabelle Lin
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the youth who participated in the study. We thank the research assistants for their help in conducting this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Society for Research on Adolescence.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Encounters with racial discrimination occur from various sources and contexts for Latinx youth. From a historical context, Latinx have long experienced anti-immigrant sentiment and have been treated as perpetual foreigners. This study centers the voices of U.S.-born Latinx youth and explores their experiences of discrimination in 83 in-depth interviews (15–25 years, (Formula presented.) age = 21.27, SD = 2.10; 58% Female). Through retrospective accounts, we identified four themes across narratives: assumed (illegal) immigrant, assumed unintelligent, assumed criminal, assumed inferior. Overt and subtle discrimination occurred across contexts and from multiple sources including peers, store employees, and strangers. The findings have implications for understanding Latinx youth make meaning of past experiences of discrimination and how those experiences are interpreted later in life.
AB - Encounters with racial discrimination occur from various sources and contexts for Latinx youth. From a historical context, Latinx have long experienced anti-immigrant sentiment and have been treated as perpetual foreigners. This study centers the voices of U.S.-born Latinx youth and explores their experiences of discrimination in 83 in-depth interviews (15–25 years, (Formula presented.) age = 21.27, SD = 2.10; 58% Female). Through retrospective accounts, we identified four themes across narratives: assumed (illegal) immigrant, assumed unintelligent, assumed criminal, assumed inferior. Overt and subtle discrimination occurred across contexts and from multiple sources including peers, store employees, and strangers. The findings have implications for understanding Latinx youth make meaning of past experiences of discrimination and how those experiences are interpreted later in life.
KW - Latinx youth
KW - qualitative narratives
KW - racial discrimination
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U2 - 10.1111/jora.12756
DO - 10.1111/jora.12756
M3 - Article
C2 - 35437826
AN - SCOPUS:85129035040
SN - 1050-8392
VL - 32
SP - 636
EP - 649
JO - Journal of Research on Adolescence
JF - Journal of Research on Adolescence
IS - 2
ER -