Abstract
This chapter describes how researchers and social scientists go about making sense of the dynamic interplay between the multiple environments and life experiences that shape the individual development and well-being of racial–ethnic minority youth and their families living in rural America today. We bring together two parallel streams of research that have been developing over the past three decades. The first represents research being conducted by rural sociologists, economists, and demographers which addresses the complex changes happening across rural regions of the United States. The second represents the conceptual challenges of identifying and measuring the social and economic contexts, the transactional relations, and social processes that need to be addressed to advance our understanding of normative youth development. The authors provide a conceptual model which draws on multiple theories and a detailed list of concepts designed to help social scientists be inclusive in the design and implementation of future research on racial–ethnic minority youth in contemporary rural America.
“Rural and urban taxonomies, researchers, policy analysts, and legislation generally view all rural areas as uniform in character. However, there are, in fact, huge variations in the demography, economics, culture, and environmental characteristics of different rural places.”
Hart, Larson, and Lishner (2005, p. 1149)
“Of the 353 most persistently poor counties in the United States—defined by Washington as having had a poverty rate above 20 percent in each of the past three decades—85 percent are rural. They are clustered in distinct regions: Indian reservations in the West; Hispanic communities in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas; a band across the Deep South and along the Mississippi Delta with a majority black population; and Appalachia, largely white, which has supplied some of America’s iconic imagery of rural poverty since the Depression-era photos of Walker Evans.”
Gabriel (2014)
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This research was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA020270), the National Science Foundation (1327768), and the Interdisciplinary Frontiers in Humanities and Arts initiative at UCD and by the Department of Human Ecology, the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, and a Research Project Award from the California Agricultural Experiment Station (Project # CA-D-HCE-7709-H) to the first author.
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Conger, K.J., Reeb, B.T., Chan, S.Y.S. (2016). Racial–Ethnic Minority Youth in Rural America: Theoretical Perspectives, Conceptual Challenges, and Future Directions. In: Crockett, L., Carlo, G. (eds) Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20976-0_2
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