This book addresses the lifelong effects of racism, covering its social, psychological, family, community and health impacts. The studies brought together in this contributed volume discuss experiences of discrimination, prejudice and exclusion experienced by children, young people, adults, older adults and their families; the processes of socialization, emotional regulation and construction of ethnic-racial identities; and stress-producing events associated with racism. This volume intends to contribute to a growing international effort to develop an antiracist agenda in developmental psychology by showcasing studies developed mainly in Brazil, the country with the largest black population in the world outside of Africa. Racism as an ideology that structures social relations and attributes superiority to one race over the others have developed in different ways in different countries. As a response to the 2020 social and health crisis, some North American developmental psychologists have started promoting initiatives to openly challenge racism. This book intends to contribute to this movement by bringing together studies conducted mainly in Brazil, but also in Germany and Norway, that adopt a racially informed approach to different topics in developmental psychology. Racism and Human Development intends to be an inspiration to students, scholars and practitioners who are seeking tools and examples of studies of race and racism from a developmental perspective. The establishment of an antiracist agenda in developmental psychology will never be possible without a commitment to the study of race as an indispensable social marker of human ontogeny in any society. This book is another step towards racial equity and towards a developmental science that leaves no one behind. Foreword: Antiracist Developmental Research in Brazil • Josafá da Cunha Acknowledgments Contents 1 Opening Chapter • Luciana Dutra-Thomé, Dóris Firmino Rabelo, Dandara Ramos, and Emanuelle Freitas Góes 2 Race and Gender Relations in Developmental Psychology • Elisabete Figueroa dos Santos and Clélia Rosane dos Santos Prestes 3 “It Is Repulsive: There Is Swearing Because of the Color of the Skin and Hair”: Experiences ,Psychosocial Effects, and Confronting Racism by Children and Adolescents in a Capital in Northeastern Brazil • Sandra Assis Brasil, Leny Alves Bomfim Trad, and João Batista de Brito Braga Alves 4 Emotion Socialization and Developmental Outcomes in Black Children: Relations with Ethnic-Racial Socialization • Patrícia Alvarenga, Nilton Correia dos Anjos Filho, Paula Kleize Costa Sales, and Antonio Carlos Santos da Silva 5 Violence, Structural Racism, and Their Relation to Health Outcomes of Black Brazilian Youth • Dandara Ramos, Emanuelle Góes, Joilda Nery, and Osiyallê Rodrigues 6 Racism in the Family and Constitution of the Subject • Lia Vainer Schucman 7 Structural Racism and the Transition to Adulthood of Black and White Brazilians • Luciana Dutra-Thomé, Jeanice da Cunha Ozorio, and Anderson Siqueira Pereira 8 The Relationship Between Racism and the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Black People • Cintia Santo de Brito and Susana Inés Núñez Rodriguez 9 The Cost of Looking Different: Racism, Mental Health and Human Development of Migrants of African Descent • Erhabor Idemudia and Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin 10 Character, Diversity Values, and Civic Engagement Among Norwegian Youth • Nora Wiium 11 Racism and Stressful Events Among Black Elderly People • Naylana Rute da Paixão Santos and Dóris Firmino Rabelo 12 Intersectionalities and Old Age: Ageism in the Crossroads of Race, Gender, and Age • Nara Maria Forte Diogo Rocha, Rodrigo da Silva Maia, Gilsiane Maria Vasconcelos Marques, and Rodrigo Lima Bandeira Index
