Advancing scholarship on anti‐racism within developmental science: Reflections on the special section and recommendations for future research

SM Cooper, NM Hurd, AB Loyd - Child Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To date, theoretical and conceptual scholarship on anti‐racism has been advanced through
leading contributions from several disciplines (eg, sociology, education, psychology). Still …

The roles of suspensions for minor infractions and school climate in predicting academic performance among adolescents.

J Del Toro, MT Wang - American Psychologist, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
African American adolescents are grossly overrepresented in rates of school suspensions
for minor disciplinary infractions; however, the consequences associated with this …

Framing resilience linked to parental ethnic‐racial socialization as hidden: A hidden resilience conceptual framework

J Del Toro, D Bernard, RM Lee… - Social and personality …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parental ethnic‐racial socialization is a source of adolescents' resilience against ethnic‐
racial discrimination. Recent meta‐analyses have documented the promotive aspects of …

Online racism and mental health among Black American adolescents in 2020

J Del Toro, MT Wang - Journal of the American Academy of Child & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective To determine whether rates of online racial discrimination changed over the
course of 2020 and their longitudinal effects on Black youths' mental health. Method This …

School cultural socialization and academic performance: Examining ethnic‐racial identity development as a mediator among African American adolescents

J Del Toro, MT Wang - Child Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Historic racial disparities in the United States have created an urgent need for evidence‐
based strategies promoting African American students' academic performance via school …

Which comes first, puberty or identity? The longitudinal interrelations between pubertal timing and sexual minority self-identification among early adolescents.

J Del Toro, V Papke, A Wiglesworth… - American …, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Sexual minority adolescents experience puberty earlier than their heterosexual peers. Early
puberty is an indicator of premature aging and can be partly driven by chronic stress linked …

Trajectories of discrimination across the college years: Associations with academic, psychological, and physical adjustment outcomes

J Del Toro, D Hughes - Journal of youth and adolescence, 2020 - Springer
Despite growing evidence that racial-ethnic discrimination has a critical impact on college
students of color, there is a shortage of longitudinal studies investigating such discrimination …

Adolescents' views of defunding the police, abolishing the police, and “the talk”

AD Fine, J Del Toro - Journal of community psychology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Definitions regarding defunding or abolishing the police are highly contested in
the United States. Moreover, adolescents' definitions and how socialization processes …

Inter‐relations between ethnic‐racial discrimination and ethnic‐racial identity among early adolescents

J Del Toro, D Hughes, N Way - Child Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The authors examined whether the longitudinal inter‐relations between ethnic‐racial
discrimination and ethnic‐racial identity vary according to the perpetrator of discrimination …

Fostering school equity: A racial socialization approach to creating an equitable school climate and reducing disciplinary infractions.

MT Wang, J Del Toro, CL Scanlon… - Developmental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite numerous efforts to attenuate the Black–White discipline gap in US schools, Black
students are still suspended for minor infractions at a disproportionately higher rate than …