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Open research questions in Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

889 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 9,635 Racial and Ethnic Identity Research papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The impact of systems of power on individuals, particularly racially/ethnically minoritized students. The need to create a welcoming and inclusive campus climate. The challenge of fostering humanizing relationships between students and postsecondary institutions.

    Psychosocial Blossoming: A Conceptual Framework for Humanizing Relationships between Racially/Ethnically Minoritized Students and Postsecondary Institutions · 2026 · DOI

  • The current higher education literature often overlooks the impact of systems of power on individuals. There is a need for a framework that supports the holistic growth of all students, particularly racially/ethnically minoritized students.

    Psychosocial Blossoming: A Conceptual Framework for Humanizing Relationships between Racially/Ethnically Minoritized Students and Postsecondary Institutions · 2026 · DOI

  • The study is limited to LGB individuals in Poland and Israel. The study's sample size is limited to 244 cisgender LGB people in Poland and 317 cisgender LGB people in Israel. The study does not include transgender individuals.

    Parenthood Aspirations Among LGB Individuals in Poland and Israel: The Roles of Minority Stressors and Pronatalism · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should examine the parenthood aspirations of transgender individuals. Future research should explore the factors shaping parenthood aspirations among LGB individuals in other countries. Future research should investigate the relationship between parenthood aspirations and actual parenting experiences among LGB individuals.

    Parenthood Aspirations Among LGB Individuals in Poland and Israel: The Roles of Minority Stressors and Pronatalism · 2026 · DOI

  • The existing literature on healthcare-related racism in Europe, and particularly in Germany, is scarce. The perspectives of racialized communities are notably absent from the existing literature.

    Racism in German healthcare: uncovering the construction and silencing of the “other” · 2025 · DOI

  • The challenge of recruiting a diverse sample of Black American participants. The difficulty of measuring lay theories of prejudice origins and their relationship to emotion regulation and psychological distress. The need to address the potential biases and limitations of the study's methodology.

    Black Americans suppress emotions when prejudice is believed to stem from shared ignorance · 2024 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of how Black Americans' lay theories of prejudice origins impact emotion regulation following racial discrimination. The limited research on lay theories of prejudice in marginalized groups. The need to investigate how LTP origins impact coping mechanisms following racial discrimination experiences.

    Black Americans suppress emotions when prejudice is believed to stem from shared ignorance · 2024 · DOI

  • There is a need to understand the impact of racial discrimination on the mental health outcomes of Black Canadian youths. Prior work has shown a significant relationship between racial discrimination and depressive symptoms, but more research is needed to understand this association among Black Canadian youths.

    Factors Influencing Racial Discrimination and Prevalence of Major Depressive Disorder Among Black Canadian Youths · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research is needed to explore the pervasiveness of Black fatigue in the lives of Black people to inform future preventative interventions.

    A Qualitative Description of the Cultural Phenomenon Black Fatigue in Ontario, Canada · 2026 · DOI

  • While social class discrimination has been linked to tobacco use, its association with adolescent substance use remains unexplored.

    Encircled by Class: Examining the Association Between Social Class Discrimination From Multiple Sources and the Variety of Substances Used Among Adolescents · 2026 · DOI

  • Although racial and class stereotypes are intertwined, few studies have examined the degree to which racial perceptions are linked to assumptions about social class.

    Seen as Latino, Assumed Lower Class: Racialized Class and Immigrant Status Perceptions in the United States · 2026 · DOI

  • The author highlights significant yet understudied belonging tests on hair, fashion and beautification, “N-word” usage, code-switching, and artistic cultural capital.

    Belonging Tests and Felt Belonging: Black Mixed-Race Students at Differing Institutional Contexts · 2026 · DOI

  • Accordingly, little is known about the tangible “tests” of racialized belonging administered by peers.

    Belonging Tests and Felt Belonging: Black Mixed-Race Students at Differing Institutional Contexts · 2026 · DOI

  • Background: Exposure to racial and ethnic discrimination (RED) is positively associated with alcohol-related outcomes among Hispanics; however, links between RED and alcohol use are poorly understood, particularly when considering RED in social media.

    Alcohol use severity among Hispanic college students: examining social media discrimination, drinking motives, and resilience in a stress and coping framework · 2025 · DOI

  • However, little is known about the changing patterns of perceived discrimination in migrant children and its relationship to socio-cultural adaptation.

    Relationship Between Trajectories of Perceived Discrimination and Socio-Cultural Adaptation Among Rural-to-Urban Migrant Children · 2025 · DOI

  • However, the degree to which Black Americans appraise discriminatory events as threatening and how their coping with discrimination affects traumatization remains unclear.

    Threat Appraisal and Coping: A Moderated Mediation of Racism-Related Trauma in Black Americans · 2025 · DOI

  • We aimed to fill the gap in understanding the difficulties experienced by immigrant children in Japanese schools with a particular focus on their social, emotional, interpersonal, and psychological well-being.

    Adjustment and Adaptation Issues Affecting the Social, Emotional and Psychological Well-Being of Immigrant Children in Japanese Schools · 2025 · DOI

  • Few studies have considered whether different domains of stressors have a differential effect on health outcomes or have considered stressors across the lifecourse.

    Stress across the lifecourse and adult mental and physical health outcomes · 2025 · DOI

  • ObjectiveLimited research has explored how the attributions of discrimination in later life are related to cognitive functioning.

    An Investigation Into the Role of Attributions of Discrimination and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults · 2025 · DOI

  • Discussion Associations between discrimination, physiological dysregulation, and cognitive performance vary and should be examined longitudinally.

    Measuring the Interrelationships Between Cognitive Performance, Race/Ethnicity, Discrimination, Health Behaviors, and Physiological Dysregulation: A Path Analysis of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis · 2025 · DOI

  • , racial socialization); however, research has not explored whether the linkages of racism experiences between parent and child are also influential for this process.

    Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization · 2025 · DOI

  • Even though parents from these communities are tasked with helping children navigate mainstream Dutch culture, learn about their cultural heritage, and cope with discrimination, little is known about these parents' ethnic‐racial socialization practices.

    Parenting While Black: Ethnic‐Racial Socialization Among Netherlands‐Based Caribbean and West‐African Heritage Mothers · 2025 · DOI

  • Notably these studies have predominately centered on the experiences of mothers, leaving a gap in understanding the perspectives of fathers and the dynamics between both parents in co‐parenting relationships.

    Growing together, knowing together: Dynamics of interracial parenting of mixed‐race children · 2025 · DOI

  • Targeted research and policy efforts are warranted to address impacts from diverse stressors while tackling racism and substance use within Asian American communities to facilitate post-pandemic recovery.

    Perceived discrimination and coping with substance use among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional analysis · 2025 · DOI

  • However, few studies have explored associations between mental health symptoms and discrimination, especially when accounting for and stratifying by birthplace.

    Mental health symptoms and discrimination among immigrant and US-born Hispanic or Latino adults during the COVID-19 pandemic · 2025 · DOI

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