Publications

The following publications are highlights of our work: 

1. Bañales, J., Cabrera, S., Garcia, B., Reyes, J., Irizarry, I.E., Rodriguez, A.J., & Aldana, A. (in press). A descriptive narrative of a Latinx research-practice partnership to develop the Roots y Resistencia intervention. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

2. Bañales, J ., Saleem, M., Murrar, S., Rivas-Drake, D., & Pinetta, B J . (2024). Social identity development and religious discrimination among Muslim American youth. Developmental Psychology.

3. Bañales, J., Mathews, C.J., Pinetta, B.J ., Channey, J., Byrd, C.M. & Wang-M.T. (2024). A preliminary investigation of longitudinal associations between ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness among Black and Latinx youth. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000674

4. Bañales, J., Pinetta, B.J., Singh, S., Rodriguez, A.J., Aldana, A., Gutierrez, F.J. (2023). Centering Youth Voice in Developmental Science: A Research Roadmap for Partnerships with Latinx Youth. In: Witherspoon, D.P., Stein, G.L. (eds) Diversity and Developmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23163-6_9

5. Bañales, J., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2022). Showing Up: A theoretical model of anti-racist identity and action for latinx youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12747

6. Bañales, J., Aldana, A., Richards-Schuster, K., & Merritt, A. (2021). Something you can see, hear, and feel: A descriptive, exploratory mixed-methods analysis of youths' articulations about racism. Journal of Adolescent Research, 1–35.

7. Bañales, J., Hope, E. C., Rowley, S. J., & Cryer-Coupet, Q. (2021). Raising justice-minded youth: Parental ethnic-racial and political socialization and Black youth's critical consciousness. Journal of Social Issues, 77, 964– 986. https://doi-org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/10.1111/josi.12486

8. Bañales, J., Sarissa Pech, A., Pinetta, B. J., Pinedo, A., Whiteside, M., Diemer, M. A., & Romero, A. J. Critiquing inequality on campus and in society: Peers and faculty in civic and academic outcomes of college students (2021). Research in Higher Education.

9. Bañales, J., Lozada, F. T., Channey, J., & Jagers, R. J. (2021). Relating through oppression: Longitudinal relations between parental racial socialization, school racial climate, oppressed minority ideology, and empathy in black male adolescents’ prosocial development. American Journal of Community Psychology, 68(1-2), 88-99. doi:10.1002/ajcp.12496 

10. Bañales, J., Hudson Banks, K., & Burke, M. A. (2021). The impact of a diversity intervention on White college students’ color-blind racial attitudes. Whiteness and Education. 

11. Bañales, J., Hoffman, A. J., Rivas-Drake, D., & Jagers, R. J. (2020). The development of ethnic-racial identity process and its relation to civic beliefs among Latinx and Black American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi: 10.1007/s10964-020-012546 

*** Emerging Scholar Best Article Award at Journal of Youth and Adolescence

12. Bañales, J., Mathews, C. J., Hayat, N., Anyiwo, N., & Diemer, M. A. (2019). Latinx and Black American young adults’ civic/political action pathways. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 26, 176-188. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000271 

13. Bañales, J., Marchand, A. D., Skinner, O., Anyiwo, N., Rowley, S. J., & Kurtz-Costes, B. (2019). Black adolescents’ critical reflection development: Parents’ racial socialization and attributions about race achievement gaps. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 30, 403-417. doi: 10.1111/jora.12485 

***One of the most downloaded articles in Journal of Research on Adolescence in 2018-2019

14. Aldana, A., Bañales, J., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2019). Youth anti-racist engagement: Conceptualization, development, and validation of an anti-racism action scale. Adolescent Research Review. 4, 369-381. doi: 10.1007/s40894-019-00113-1

15. Bañales, J., Aldana, A., Richards-Schuster, K., Flanagan, C. A., Diemer, M. A., & Rowley, S. J. (2019). Youth anti-racism action: Contributions of school racial messages and youth critical consciousness. Journal of Community Psychology. 1-22. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22266

16. Hope, E. C., & Bañales, J. (2018). Black early adolescent critical reflection of inequitable sociopolitical conditions: A qualitative investigation. Journal of Adolescent Research, 34, 167-200. doi:10.1177/0743558418756360

17. Anyiwo, N., Bañales, J., Rowley, S. J., Watkins, D. C., & Richards‐Schuster, K. (2018). Sociocultural influences on the sociopolitical development of African American youth. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 1–6. doi:10.1111/cdep.12276

18. Lozada, F. T., Jagers, R. J., Smith, C. D., Bañales, J., & Hope, E. C. (2017). Prosocial behaviors of Black adolescent boys: An application of a sociopolitical development theory. Journal of Black Psychology, 43, 493–516. doi:10.1177/0095798416652021