Online racial harassment leads to lower academic confidence for Black and Hispanic students

By Alvin Thomas, Assistant Professor, Phyllis Northway Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

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Online racial discrimination or harassment has a negative effect on the academic and emotional well-being of students of color. That is the key finding from a study I published recently in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

For the study, I surveyed 356 Black and Hispanic teens across the U.S. I analyzed their…

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