Wisdom Andino
Pronouns: she/her
Research Mentor(s): Natasha Johnson
Co-Presenter: Odiase, Peace
Research Mentor School/College/Department: / Public Health
Presentation Date: April 20
Presentation Type: Oral5
Session: Session 3 – 1:40pm – 2:30 pm
Room: Breakout room 1
Authors: Wisdom Andino, Natasha Johnson
Presenter: 1
Abstract
Project description: I am engaged in the Undergraduate Research Program (UROP) at U of M, which gives students an opportunity to join a research project throughout the school year. I currently work as a research assistant in The Awareness Research Lab with Dr. Natasha Johnson. I am working on a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project titled: Understanding Black Youths’ Awareness of Racial Inequality: Developing and Validating an Instrument for Holistic Assessment. Through this project, I am working to learn more about the way Black youth articulate their awareness of racism and race-based experiences through one-on-one interviews. We are currently in the recruitment and data collection phase of the study, which will be followed by data analyses through thematic coding and creations of scale that measures Black youth’s understanding of racism. The sample will include 40 Black youth in grades sixth through twelfth attending schools in a Midwestern urban school district. During the interviews, the youth will be asked questions such as “What does the term racism mean to you?†“What do others think or believe about Black/African-American people?†and “How do you think Black/African American people were affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic?†These questions will provide us with an opportunity to hear what Black youth believe to be true about their race and community. The scale will be created using thematic coding to create subscales of racism awareness (e.g., individual, institutional, historical) and scale items by identifying the most common words/phrases used throughout the interviews. We hope that the scale can be useful across various systems (i.e. education, mental healthcare) due to its ability to give professionals in these fields an understanding of how the youth view themselves and the world they live in.
Public Health
