RESOURCES
Are you a parent or an educator interested in exploring how children grow to understand race and identity? We invite you to explore our “Learning Resources” tab where you will find web-based learning modules, which provide tools on how you can speak with your children about their growing understanding of race, identity and racial injustices. Our “Research Highlights” section provides several media coverages on how children form their identities, what Black adolescents say about stereotypes, and more!
McLean, K., Fish, J., Rogers, L. O., Syed, M. (in press). Shifting the frame: The study of resilience needs to move from the individual to the structural. American Psychologist.
Rogers, L. O., Moffitt, U., McLean, K., & Syed, M. (2024). Research as resistance: Naming and dismantling the master narrative of “good” science. American Psychologist, 79(4), 484-496. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001246
*Jones, C. M., *Lam, P. H., & Rogers, L. O. (2024). Black racial identity and engagement during Black Lives Matter 2020: The role of age and multiracial status. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000719
*Eisenman, S. R., & Rogers, L. O. (2024). Narratives of racially/ethnically diverse genderqueer & non binary identities in the U.S. context of trans*normativity and whiteness. Emerging Adulthood, 12(5), 894-910. https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968241261105
*Dull, B. D., Rogers, L. O., & *Charlson, E. (2024). “I don’t think there is much racism left”: A critical analysis of White adolescents’ (un)awareness of white privilege. Qualitative Psychology, 11(1), 52– 74. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000283
Rogers, L. O. (2024). Lessons on listening from Carol Gilligan for the psychological study of human development. Harvard Educational Review. 94(1), 98-105. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-94.1.98
Rogers, L. O., *Scott, K. E., *Wintz, F., *Eisenman, S. R., *Dorsi, C., Chae, D., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2024). Exploring whether and how Black and White parents talk with their children about race: M(ai)cro race conversations about Black Lives Matter. Developmental Psychology, 60(3), 407-421. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001693
*Rosario, R. J., *Moffitt, U., & Rogers, L. O. (2023). “Where’s My People?”: An Investigation of the Structure and Content of Black and Latinx College Students’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Narratives. Emerging Adulthood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968231214020
*Moffitt, U., Katsiaficas, D., Ghavami, N., *Minor, I., *Padilla, D., & Rogers, L. O. (2023). Intersectionality and Identity: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Analysis of US Research in Psychological Science. Identity, 1-26. 10.1080/15283488.2023.2223647
*Jones, C. M., & Rogers, L. O. (2023). Family racial/ethnic socialization Through the Lens of multiracial Black identity: A m(ai)cro analysis of meaning making. Race and Social Problems, 15, 59-78. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-023-09387-6
*Moffitt, U., Rogers, L. O., *Charlson, E., & *Mzizi, Y. (2022). Race Talk During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Emerging Adults’ Critical Consciousness and Racial Identity in Context. Epub ahead of print: Journal of Adolescent Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584221145009
Rogers, L. O., & Heard-Garris, N (2022). Documenting racial disparities or disrupting racism? A all to center systems o power, privilege, and oppression in psychological and pediatric research. Invited Commentary. JAMA Pediatrics.
Rogers, L. O. (2022). From promoting healthy masculinities to nurturing healthy humans and societies: Comment on Di Bianca and Mahalik (2022). American Psychologist, 77(3), 338-340. PMID: 35587401; DOI: 10.1037/amp0000976
*Moffitt, U. & Rogers, L. O. (2022) Studying ethnic-racial identity among white youth: White supremacy as a developmental context. Journal of Research on Adolescence: “Oppression is as American as Apple Pie”: Learning About and Confronting Whiteness, Privilege, and Oppression Special Series: Dismantling Systems of Racism and Oppression during Adolescence. Epub: https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12762
*Turner, A. F., Couch, N. G., *Cowan, H. R., *Otto-Meyer, R., Murthy, P., Logan, R. L., Rogers, L. O. & McAdams, D. P. (2022). The good and the bad in black and white: Stories of life’s high and low points told by black and white midlife adults in America. Journal of Research in Personality, 101, 104298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104298
Destin, M., *Silverman, D. M., & Rogers, L. O. (2022). Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(6), e12668. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12668
*Jones, C. M., & Rogers, L. O. (2022). “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy. Social Sciences, 11(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11010019
*Das, S., Hughes, D., Way, N., & Rogers, L. O. (2022). Lessons of resistance from Black mothers to their Black sons. Journal of Research on Adolescence: “Good trouble, necessary trouble”: Dismantling oppression through resistance and activism. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12740
*Nielson, M. G., Martin, C. L., Rogers, L. O., Lindstrom Johnson, S., Miller, C. F., & Berendzen, H. (2022). Exploring young men’s experience of resistance to masculine norms. Emerging Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968211072933.
Rogers, L. O., & Butler-Barnes, S. (2022). “Even though we don’t have everything…we build our own thing”: Exploring Black girl space.“Black Lives Matter: Systems of oppression affecting Black youth.” Journal of Research on Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12697
Gordon, S., Hwang, C., Sahaguian, L. & Rogers, L. O. (May, 2019). The Role of Resistance: Black Girls’ Reports to Discrimination and Links to Mental Health. Poster session presented at Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
Minor, I. & Rogers, L. O. (May, 2019). “You’re Pretty for a Dark Skin Girl”: Rejecting Colorism in an All-Black, All-Girls High School. Poster session presented at Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
Foo, C. & Rogers, L. O. (May, 2019). “There’s not many people who are willing to stand up these days”: Race Counternarratives in Middle Childhood. Poster session presented at Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
Padilla, D. & Rogers, L. O. (May, 2019). “There’s Racist People Out There, Like Donald Trump”: Children’s Reflections on Current Politics. Poster session presented at Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
Sahaguian, L. & Rogers, L. O. (May, 2019). #BlackGirlMagic: Does the Social Media Hashtag Silence the Realities of Oppression and Resistance? Poster session presented at Association of Psychological Science. Washington, DC.
Rogers, L. O., Cielto, J., Foo, C., Gordon, S., Padilla, D. & Sahaguian, L. (February, 2019). Does Hair Matter? How Black Girls Integrate Features in their Social Identities. Poster session presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR.
Rogers, L. O., Nelson, EP., Padilla, D., Foo, C. & Sahaguian, L. (February, 2019). Who, What, and How: A Systematic Literature Review of Identity Intersectionality Research in Psychology. Poster session presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR.
Web-based learning modules developed for parents and educators to discuss race and child development.
Modules are based on child development research and explore how children grow to understand race (and social groups) and how parents and educators can talk with children about their growing understanding of race, identity, and racial injustice.
Each module includes a Discussion Guide with questions and recommendations
Module 1: Race today: What kids know as they grow
Module 2: Racing towards equality: Why talking to your kids about race is good for everyone
How Parents Talked To Their Children About BLM with Onnie Rogers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKaIe2OZNf4
Equal Justice Society – http://talktokids.net/
Anti-Racist Teaching Collective – https://www.arteachingcollective.com/
National Black Child Development Institute – https://www.nbcdi.org/
EmbraceRace: https://www.embracerace.org/
The Hill – “White parents: Talking to your children about racism is part of the solution.”
We Humans | Ideas.Ted.Com – “There’s a right way to talk about racism with kids – and most white parents in the US aren’t doing it.”
CNN Health – “White parents: Talk to your kids about racism to raise more empathic adults.”
Notices of the American Mathematical Society – “To the Editor: On diversifying top mathematics departments.”
The Conversation – “Most White parents don’t talk about racism with their kids.”
Medium: National Center for Institutional Diversity — “My hair is bomb” Black girls identities and resistance.”
U.S. News and World Report – “Be ‘color-brave’ with your kids. Avoiding conversations with children about race is costly.”
Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University – Faculty Spotlight: “IPR developmental psychologist examines how children form their identities.”
KUOW NPR radio show – How Stereotypes Affect Black Adolescent Males
Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences – What Black Adolescents Say About Stereotypes
UW Today – “Study provides insight into children’s race and gender identities”
New York Mag – “What your election freak out looks like from a kid’s point of view.”