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Stevenson (chapter “Dueling Narratives: Racial Socialization and Literacy as Triggers for Re-Humanizing African American Boys, Young Men, and Their Families”) provides a compelling scientific framing of critical issues and important findings for a humanized narrative for understanding, supporting, and facilitating successful development of boys of color. The purpose of this chapter is to bring my perspective as a developmental scientist with an ecological orientation to augment his suggestions. Three areas of work and critical analysis are highlighted: humanizing intervention evaluation, humanizing developmental pathways research narratives, and humanizing the developmental scientist. Critical theoretical and methodological principles, and opportunities for pursuing excellent developmental research and sounder action, are suggested. The intent is to move from the current impoverished and deficient state of understanding of young men of color to an empathic and more useful one.
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Tolan, P.H. (2016). Humanizing Developmental Science to Promote Positive Development of Young Men of Color. In: M. Burton, L., Burton, D., M. McHale, S., King, V., Van Hook, J. (eds) Boys and Men in African American Families. National Symposium on Family Issues, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43847-4_7
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