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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Minority stress theory, coined by Ilan Meyer (2003), articulates empirically supported findings where marginalized sociodemographic groups experience increased risk for distress due to more frequent and deleterious experiences of discrimination, harassment, systemic oppression / barriers, stigmatization and social isolation.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Though freedom dreaming, Black youth are invited to envision a liberatory future that is not limited by the present, often anti-Black, systems and constraints (Kelley, 2003). Hire Black faculty with expertise in Black youth mental health. Mayes et al. The Social Studies,114 (5), 241–249. link] hooks, b. Beacon Press.