Scott Edward D, Harris Johari, Smith Chauncey D, Ross Latisha
Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Bagwell College of Education, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 22;14:867749. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.867749. eCollection 2023.
Black adolescents occupy one of the most precarious and marginalized social locations of society, yet they remain vigilant against oppression. Indeed, Black youth have a vast history of political action and activism around domestic and global issues. Existing scholarship frequently examines the sociocultural and cognitive factors associated with Black adolescents' political and civic engagement and related outcomes. Lost in these interrogations is an examination of the psychological processes that undergird adolescents' sociopolitical visions. To address this gap, this conceptual analysis examines political imagination and its role in Black adolescents' sociopolitical development. Political imagination is the cognitive space and process where people consciously distance the present moment to engage, explore, examine, and (de)construct sociopolitical worlds or realities.
黑人青少年处于社会中最不稳定和最边缘化的社会位置之一,但他们仍对压迫保持警惕。事实上,黑人青年在国内外问题上有着悠久的政治行动和激进主义历史。现有学术研究经常探讨与黑人青少年的政治和公民参与及相关结果相关的社会文化和认知因素。在这些研究中,对支撑青少年社会政治愿景的心理过程的考察却被忽视了。为了填补这一空白,本概念分析探讨了政治想象力及其在黑人青少年社会政治发展中的作用。政治想象力是一个认知空间和过程,在这个空间和过程中,人们有意识地与当下保持距离,以参与、探索、审视和(去)构建社会政治世界或现实。