Workshop: Race, Risk, and Resilience among Black Youth in the United States and South Africa: Conceptual, Methodological, and Application Considerations

这是一项支持在2012年国际心理学大会(2012年7月22-27日，南非开普敦)上举行的研讨会和研讨会的建议。该项目的目标是促进在黑人青年中研究风险和复原力过程中的概念和方法问题的跨国讨论和合作。这个项目之所以如此重要和及时，是因为它结合了南非和北美背景的自然跨文化比较。研讨会的重点是回顾和传播与南非和美国有关的与种族相关的心理过程的专家知识，在南非，黑人占多数人口，在美国，黑人是少数人。研讨会的拟议结构包括南非和美国学者的学术演讲，以及由南非和美国的专家学者领导的小组回应和听众讨论。会议将首先介绍专题讨论小组成员和演讲者，并概述将在会议上讨论的问题。这包括以下内容：(1)为什么在南非和美国的黑人青年中，复原力是一个重要且有意义的结构；(2)在理解这些背景下的复原力时，重要的概念、背景和文化考虑；以及(3)美国和南非的学者和专业心理学家在研究种族、风险和复原力以及利用知识促进积极的青年结果方面可以相互学习。研讨会包括初级和高级学者，他们每人将简要介绍与风险和复原力过程有关的研究。来自南非和美国的学者小组将向演讲者提出批判性问题和评论，并鼓励观众围绕将风险和韧性知识概念化、研究和应用到黑人青年人口中的考虑和挑战进行互动讨论。值得注意的是，这其中包括对不同国家背景下的相似和不同的讨论。目标是在会议结束时，参加会议的学者将有一套与南非和美国黑人青年的风险和复原力研究有关的明确的理论和研究问题。该专题讨论会有相当大的学术发展潜力和对多学科文献的贡献，这些文献涉及黑人人口在多个生活领域(如教育、心理健康和生活满意度、健康、政治赋权)中的心理复原力进程，潜在地扩展到经历历史结构和社会压迫的其他群体，严格演示和审查多种理论和方法，以及系统地研究背景对黑人人口的生活结果和调整的影响和相互作用。该项目明确关注复原力奖学金的应用和使用，在围绕改变危险环境以更好地支持积极的青年成果的理论和方案努力方面都产生了广泛的影响。

This a proposal to support a symposium and workshop to be held at the 2012 International Congress of Psychology (ICP) Conference (July 22-27, 2012, in Cape town, South Africa). The goal of the project is to promote cross-national discussion and collaboration around conceptual and methodological issues in studying risk and resilience processes among Black youth. What makes this project so important and timely is that it incorporates, indeed hinges upon, a natural cross cultural comparison of South African and North American contexts. The symposium is focused on review and dissemination of expert knowledge of race-related psychological processes related to risk and resilience in South Africa where Blacks represent the majority population and the U.S., where Blacks are a minority population. The proposed structure of the symposium includes scholarly presentations by South Africa-based and U.S.-based scholars and panel response and audience discussion led by expert scholars from South Africa and the United States. The session will begin with an introduction of panelists and presenters and an overview of the issues to be addressed in the session. This includes the following: (1) why resilience is an important and meaningful construct to study among Black youth in South African and American contexts; (2) important conceptual, contextual, and cultural considerations in understanding resilience across these settings; and (3) what scholars and professional psychologists in U.S. and South African contexts can learn from one another about studying race, risk, and resilience and using knowledge to promote positive youth outcomes. The symposium includes a mix of junior and senior scholars who will each give brief presentations of research related to risk and resilience processes. A panel of scholars from South Africa and the U.S. will pose critical questions and comments to the presenters and encourage audience interactive discussion around considerations and challenges in conceptualizing, studying, and applying knowledge about risk and resilience to Black youth populations. Notably, this includes a discussion of the parallels and divergence across national contexts. The goal is that by the end of the session, scholars participating in the session will have a set of articulated theoretical and research questions related to the study of risk and resilience among Black South African and American youth. This symposium has considerable potential for scholarly development and contributions to multi-disciplinary literatures on psychological resilience processes among Black populations in multiple life domains (e.g., education, psychological well-being and life-satisfaction, health, political empowerment), potential extensions to other groups experiencing historical structural and social oppression, the rigorous demonstration and examination of multiple theoretical and methodological approaches, and the systematic examination of context effects and interactions among contexts on the life outcomes and adjustment of Black populations. The project's explicit attention to the application and use of scholarship on resilience represents broad impact in both theory and programmatic efforts around changing risky contexts to better support positive youth outcomes.