Finigan-Carr Nadine M, Sharpe Tanya L
School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD United States.
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario United States.
Child Adolesc Social Work J. 2022 Aug 9:1-8. doi: 10.1007/s10560-022-00872-2.
Adolescence is a challenging time fraught with developmental changes that influence sociocultural identity, psychosocial and biological development. Integrating a sense of ethnic identity into one's personal identity is an important task for Black youth during this developmental stage as it impacts aspirations, ideology, and interpersonal identity. Black youth are not only navigating this critical stage but doing so while traversing issues related to a syndemic of injustice rooted in anti-Black racism that permeates the very fabric of our society. This manuscript describes the syndemic of injustice framework as it relates to the ways in which anti-Black racism contributes to experiences of structural, symbolic and interpersonal violence for Black youth and how these experiences of violent oppression ultimately influence the developmental processes involved in identity formation for Black youth. Implications for social work practice are discussed.
青春期是一个充满挑战的时期，充满了影响社会文化身份、心理社会和生物发展的发育变化。在这个发展阶段，将种族身份意识融入个人身份对黑人青年来说是一项重要任务，因为它会影响理想、意识形态和人际身份。黑人青年不仅要经历这个关键阶段，还要在应对与根植于反黑人种族主义的不公正综合症相关的问题，这种不公正渗透到我们社会的方方面面。本文描述了不公正综合症框架，涉及反黑人种族主义如何导致黑人青年遭受结构性、象征性和人际暴力，以及这些暴力压迫经历如何最终影响黑人青年身份形成所涉及的发展过程。还讨论了对社会工作实践的启示。
