Who has to act? A qualitative exploration of emerging adults' critical consciousness during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
The COVID‐19 pandemic and violence against people of Color during 2020 brought troubling racial inequities to the forefront of American discourse. In line with the Critical Consciousness (CC) and Social Justice Youth Development (SJYD) frameworks, emerging adults may have developed their capacity fo...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 71; no. 1/2; pp. 136 - 147 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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