The Adolescent Resistance & Cultural Resilience (ARCR) Project is a newly launched project from the CDS lab looking to recruit Black parent-teen (13-17-years-old) dyads living in the province of Quebec. This project aims to combine longitudinal and daily diary designs to examine the development of cultural factors and resilience in the face of discrimination, how these processes operate in day-to-day life, and their long-terms impacts on individual and family wellbeing. Recruitment of the baseline sample is currently ongoing.
Complementing the ARCR study, we have worked with Leger Marketing to collect data in English and French on a national sample of 511 Black and Latinx young adults (age 18-34 at baseline) from across Canada. Baseline and 3-month follow-up data collection is complete, with 3 additional 3-month follow ups planned. This project is intended to assess the short-term longitudinal effects of discrimination, internalized racism, coping, anti-racist action, and mental health among Black and Latinx Canadian young adults.
This project is supported by a grant from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC) and an internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development (SSHD) grant from McGill.
Neighborhoods to Neurons (N2N) is a project in collaboration with Dr. Anna Weinberg's TRAC Lab, as well as with Dr. Alexis Dennis (McGill Sociology) and Dr. Sam Nelson (McGill Religious Studies). N2N aims to characterize and quantify how neighborhood-level risk factors and markers of systemic racism exposure impact cognitive functioning and psychological health among Black families in the city of Montreal.
This project is supported by a CONNECT grant from McGill Healthy Brains Healthy Lives. Data are being collected by Decision Point Research.
The Multi-RaSCS Project, or multi-racial socialization competency project, is a cross-sectional study broadly focused on parents’ ethnic-racial socialization practices, parents racialized experiences, and their children’s mental health and wellbeing. Collected in the summer of 2020, participants in Multi-RaSCS included about 800 Black, White, Latinx, and Asian American parents with at least one child between the ages of 10 and 18.
Members of the Multi-RaSCS team include:
Riana Anderson, Ph.D. (University of Michigan), Michele Chan (UNC Greensboro), N. Keita Christophe, Ph.D. (McGill University), Shawn C.T. Jones, Ph.D. (Virginia Commonwealth University), Lisa Kiang, Ph.D. (Wake Forest University), Gabriela L. Stein, Ph.D. (UNC Greensboro), and Howard C. Stevenson, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania).
The LOVING project is a cross-sectional study on Multiracial emerging adults experiences and wellbeing. Collected in 2018 and 2019, the LOVING project consists of about 700 diverse Multiracial emerging adults aged 18-25 recruited from 3 universities across the United States. Manuscripts using the LOVING Project data have centered around gaining a better understanding of ethnic-racial socialization, ethnic-racial identity development, parental support, and the relations between discrimination and mental wellbeing.
Members of the LOVING Study collaborative, presented in alphabetical order, include:
Clarissa Abidog (Arizona State University), Annabelle L. Atkin, Ph.D (Purdue University), N. Keita Christophe, Ph.D (McGill University), Abigail K. Gabriel (Arizona State University), Richard M. Lee, Ph.D (University of Minnesota), Gabriela L. Stein, Ph.D (UNC Greensboro), and Christine S. Wu, PhD (Oberlin College).
