Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards

Journal article Health Equity · 2022 Featured Publication Ensuring equity in research is a critical step in advancing health equity. In this perspective, the authors introduce a guiding framework for advancing racial equity in research processes, environments, and among the research workforce, the 5Ws of Racial E ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Denominational Differences in Obesity Among Black Christian Adults: Why Gender and Life Stage Matter.

Journal article J Sci Study Relig · September 2021 Featured Publication Religiosity is a potential social determinant of obesity risk among black Americans, a group that tends to be highly religious and disproportionately suffers from this disease. Although religious engagement differs within this group, researchers often clas ... Full text Link to item Cite

Teaching Scared: Pre-Service Teacher Appraisals of Racial Stress, Socialization and Classroom Management Self-Efficacy.

Journal article Soc Psychol Educ · October 2020 Featured Publication The fears of pre-service teachers, particularly Teach for America (TFA) teachers. about working in urban classroom settings are framed as racial stress. Racial stress is the threat of well-being when one is unprepared to negotiate a race-related interperso ... Full text Link to item Cite

Consistently inconsistent: An examination of the variability in the identification of emotional disturbance

Journal article Psychology in the Schools · April 1, 2019 Featured Publication The federal definition of emotional disturbance (ED) has been heavily criticized as vaguely defined and poorly operationalized yet there has not been a formal analysis of the reliability of the ED criteria. This study examined the reliability of the federa ... Full text Cite

How does it feel to be a problem? The missing Kerner commission report

Journal article Rsf · September 1, 2018 Featured Publication Using an intersectional lens of race and gender, this article offers a critique of the Kerner Commission report and fills the gap of the missing analysis of white rage and of black women. A protracted history of white race riots resulted in the loss of bla ... Full text Cite

If i can do for my people, i can do for myself: Examining racial factors for their influence on goal efficacy for black college students

Journal article Journal of College Student Development · March 1, 2016 Featured Publication Using a sociocultural stress and coping approach, this study focuses on the antecedents of goal efficacy, or an individual’s appraisal that they can achieve their goals. Despite being in college, less than half of the participants demonstrated goal efficac ... Full text Cite

Hope, Agency, or Disconnect: Scale Construction for Measures of Black Racial Cohesion and Dissonance

Journal article Journal of Black Psychology · February 1, 2016 Featured Publication Social cohesion and agency in Blacks have not been sufficiently explored in a culturally relevant context. The current study (n = 242 Black college students) explores the concept of racial cohesion, or the intersection of racial identity, common fate desti ... Full text Cite

Training for colour-blindness: white racial socialisation

Journal article Whiteness and Education · January 1, 2016 Featured Publication Racial socialisation describes the mechanisms by which youth acquire concepts of race and racism. The field addressing racial dynamics in the United States has primarily focused on the racial socialisation of youth of colour, generally regarding White raci ... Full text Cite