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December 8, 2025Prevention ScienceOpen Access

Disrupting Racial Dehumanization As a Root Cause of Youth Violence Through Community Engaged Visual Storytelling and Narrative Change

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IWIndya A. WalkerDTDionna M. TilleryZAZizwe Allette

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Overview

Exploring community intervention to combat youth violence and structural racism in Black males, highlighting participatory action research and qualitative methods.

Key Points

  • Youth violence remains a critical concern, especially among Black males exposed to firearm violence, highlighting urgent calls for community intervention.
  • The study captures the effectiveness of a participatory action research approach with qualitative interviewing that produced counter-narratives to dehumanization.
  • Participants engaged with community-focused storytelling projects that aimed to reshape perceptions of Black youth, enabling more empathetic views on their experiences.
  • This intervention may enable a broader understanding of youth violence, combating structural racism and advocating for healing among impacted populations.

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Walker et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/693624ad4fa91c937236c523https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-025-01856-1
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