KEISHA L. BENTLEY-EDWARDS, PHD

THE LATEST

PUBLISHED WORK

Scholarly Papers, Book Chapters, Research Briefs & Op-Eds

OVERVIEW

My work crosses into the realms of psychology, health, education, and Black studies. Overall, I study how race, racial socialization, and racism affect the health and well-being of children and adults. Most of my research is on African Americans, however, I also examine how White families socialize their children on race. My currently funded research examines the influence of religion and spirituality on cardiovascular disease in Black adults.

RACIAL SOCIALIZATION

Coleman-King, C., Adams-Bass, V., Bentley-Edwards, K., Thomas, D., Thompson, C., Michael, A., et al. (2021). Got Skillz? Recasting and Negotiating Racial Tension in Teacher-Student Relationships Amidst Shifting Demographics. Social Sciences, 10(3), 99. 

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Bartoli, E., Michael, A., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Stevenson, H. C., Shor, R. E., & McClain, S. E. (2016). Training for colour-blindness: white racial socialisation. Whiteness and Education, 1-12. doi: 10.1080/23793406.2016.1260634

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L., & Stevenson, H. C. (2016). The multidimensionality of racial/ethnic socialization: Scale construction for the Cultural and Racial Experiences of Socialization (CARES). Journal of Child & Family Studies, 25(1), 96-98. doi: 10.1007/s10826-015-0214-7

Bentley, K. L., Adams, V. N., & Stevenson, H. C. (2009). Racial Socialization: Roots, Processes & Outcomes. In H. Neville, B. Tynes & S. Utsey (Eds.), Handbook of African American Psychology (pp. 258-267). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Bartoli, E., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Michael, A., Garcia, A. M., & Ervin, A. (2015). What do White counselors need to know about race?: White racial socialization in counselor education programs. Journal of Women & Therapy: Special Issue on Whiteness & White Privilege in Therapy. 38(3-4), 246-262. doi: 10.1080/02703149.2015.1059206

RACIAL COHESION

Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Smith, L. V., Robbins, P. A., & Adams-Bass, V. N. (2019). Out of the Hood, But Not Out of the Woods: The School Engagement and Cohesion of Black Students Based on Exposure to Violence and Victimization. The Urban Review. doi: 10.1007/s11256-019-00517-2

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2016). Hope, Agency, or Disconnect: Scale Construction for Measures of Black Racial Cohesion and Dissonance. Journal of Black Psychology. 42(1), 73-79. doi: 10.1177/0095798414557670

Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Agonafer, E., Edmondson, R., & Flannigan, A. (2016). If I Can Do For My People, I Can Do For Myself: Examining Racial Factors for Their Influence on Goal Efficacy For Black College Students, Journal of College Student Development. 57(2), 151-167. doi: 10.1353/csd.2016.0018

Bentley-Edwards, K. L. & Chapman-Hilliard, C. (2015). Doing Race in different places: Black Racial Cohesion on Black and White college campuses. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 8(1), 43-60. doi: 10.1037/a0038293.

BLACK WOMEN & GIRLS

Adams-Bass, V. N., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2020). The problem with “Black girl magic” for Black girls. In D. Apugo, L. Mahwhinney & A. M. Mblishaka (Eds.), Strong Black Girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image (pp. 99-117). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

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Smith, I. Z., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., El-Amin, S., & Darity Jr, W. (2018). Fighting at Birth: Eradicating the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap (pp. 14). Durham, NC: Duke University's Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; Insight Center on Community Economic Development.

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Adams-Bass, V. N., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., & Stevenson, H. C. (2014). That’s Not Me I See On TV: African American youth interpret media images Of Black females. Women, Gender and Families of Color, 2(1).    

Bentley-Edwards, K. L., & Adams-Bass, V. N. (2013). The Whole Picture: Examining Black women through the life span. In H. O. Jackson Lowman (Ed.), Afrikan American Women: Living at the Crossroads of Race, Gender, Class, and Culture: Cognella Press/University Readers.    ​

PRE-SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE & EDUCATION ISSUES

Robbins, P. A., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2020). Message Received? The Effect of Academic Socialization on NCAA Athletes’ Grades. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 13, 405-423. 

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Stevenson, H. C., Thomas, D. E., Adams-Bass, V. N., & Coleman-King, C. (2020). Teaching scared: pre-service teacher appraisals of racial stress, socialization and classroom management self-efficacy. Social Psychology of Education. doi: 10.1007/s11218-020-09578-8

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Scardamalia, K., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., & Grasty, K. Consistently inconsistent: An examination of the variability in the identification of emotional disturbance. Psychology in the Schools, 0(0). doi: doi:10.1002/pits.22213

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Michael, A., Coleman-King, C., Lee, S., Ramirez, C., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2017). Naming the Unnamed: White Culture in Relief. In S. D. Hancock & C. A. Warren (Eds.), White Woman’s Work: Examining the Intersectionality of Cultural Norms, Teaching, and Identity Formation in Urban Schools (pp. 19-43). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L. & Robbins, Paul A. (2014). What Black Parents Need to Know About School Readiness Contradictions. Psych Discourse, 48(1). 

RACE,

BLACK STUDIES & RACISM STRESS

Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Edwards, M. C., Spence, C. N., Darity Jr, W. A., Hamilton, D., & Perez, J. (2018). How Does it Feel to be a Problem? The Missing Kerner Commission Report. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(6), 20-40. 

Sanchez, D., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Matthews, J. S., & Granillo, T. (2016). Exploring Divergent Patterns in Racial Identity Profiles Between Caribbean Black American and African American Adolescents: The Links to Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Concerns. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 44(4), 285-304. doi: 10.1002/jmcd.12054

AFRICAN AMERICANS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH

Robbins, P. A., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Blackman Carr, L. T., Conde, E., Van Vliet, R., & Darity Jr, W. A. (2020). Shades of Black: Gendered denominational variation in depression symptoms among Black Christians. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. doi: 10.1037/rel0000398

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Robbins, P. A., Scott, M. J., Conde, E., Daniel, Y., Darity, W. A., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2020). Denominational and Gender Differences in Hypertension Among African American Christian Young Adults. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi: 10.1007/s40615-020-00895-4

Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Blackman Carr, L. T., Robbins, P. A., Conde, E., Zaw, K., & Darity, W. A. (2019). Investigating Denominational and Church Attendance Differences in Obesity and Diabetes in Black Christian Men and Women. Journal of Religion and Health. doi: 10.1007/s10943-019-00888-6

PUBLIC LECTURES &
EXPERT COMMENTARY

““…I am deliberate and
afraid of nothing.”

-Audre Lorde's New Year's Day Poem

SHARING MY INSIGHTS & EXPERTISE

I often provide insight to local and national media outlets on a wide range of issues that deal with youth, race & racism, health and education. I often do lectures, panels and workshops in university, community, school, and church settings. Links to some of these appearances are below. You can click here for the video gallery.

IN THE MEDIA

• NPR Source of the Week

• Taris, J., & Stasio, F. (2020). The State of Things. Examining Gaps In The 1968 Report That First Named White Racism As The Cause For Black Riots. wunc.org.

• Dawson, A., & Joyner, I. (2020, March 1). The Legal Eagle Review In Black Infant Mortality in North Carolina

• Holub-Moorman, G., & Rao, A. (2020, February 20). The State of Things In Embodied: The Long Drive To Safe Birth in NC. 

• Kolodner, M. (2019, October 21). Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding The Hechinger Report. New York, NY.

• Quillin, M. (2019, August 21). Duke study finds differences in diabetes and obesity rates within black churches, The News & Observer. 

• Gorman, A. (2019, February 13). I’m Not Here to Answer Your Black History Month Questions, The New York Times. 

• Guzman, M. (2019, January 31). Welcome to Detroit, where black babies are at higher risk of death, The Guardian.

• Dawson, A. & Joyner, I. (2018). Juneteenth & Reparations. Durham, NC: WNCU; Legal Eagle Review Radio Show.

• Education Matters. (2018), Racial Disparity in School Discipline. Raleigh, NC: WRAL; Public School Forum of North Carolina. 

• Ball, J. (Writer). (2018). iMixWhatiLike.com, Blackness Largely Absent From Kerner Commission Report on Black Uprisings. 

• Johnson, T. (2017, August 27). Amid Confederate Monument Controversy, Some Older Black People Question, Why Now?, Dallas Morning News.

• Eddings, E., & Luse, B. (2017). A is for Afrocentric. In E. Eddings & B. Luse (Eds.), The Nod. Apple, Spotify: Gimlet Media.

• Why Schools Should Refine Black History Education. The Joy Cardin Show (Wisconsin Public Radio).

• Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2016, Feb 6). We Need to Change How We Teach Black History. TIME.

• Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2015, November 5). Our Hand-Held Engine Of Justice, Corpus Christi Caller Times. 

• Teaching Black History. (2016, February 19). In R. Gilbert (Producer), Good Day Austin (Fox 7).

• Meckley, F., & Tulp, S. (2016, January 28). Collective momentum: College activists drive institutional change, The Ithacan. 

• Rahmen, F. (2016, January 27). Equally 'gifted' children not recognized equally, study finds The Houston Chronicle. 

• Rahmen, F. (2016, January 17). Coming soon to nonprofit boarding school: a girls' dorm, The Houston Chronicle.

• Alcindor, Y. (2015, November 11). University of Missouri unrest a signal for other schools, experts say, USA Today. 

• Dearman, E. (2015, October 15). The Q&A: Keisha Bentley-Edwards, The Texas Tribune. 

• Alcindor, Y. (2015, August 9). Unrelenting Ferguson protests pushed year of national change, USA Today. 

• Alcindor, Y. (2014, June 19). Slavery records will soon be easily searchable online, USA Today.  

• Fanning, R. (2015). A Dry Summer for Boy Scouts as Group Bans Water Guns Texas Standard: Texas Public Radio.

• Latson, J. (2014, December 22). Two Shootings, 30 Years Apart, Linked by Fear. TIME.

• Madhani, A & Alcindor, Y. (2014, November 29). Ferguson Could Spark a New Civil Rights Movement. USA Today.

• Guerra, A. (2014, September 8). Assistant Professor Receives Grant for Bullying Study, The Daily Texan.

• Alcindor, Y. (2014, August 28). Ferguson violence could be a catalyst for change, USA Today. 

• Alcindor, Y. (2014, February 26). Jordan Davis' Parents Talk About The Future And Gun Laws, USA Today. 

• Alcindor, Y. (2014, February 13). Again, A Black Teen Is Shot, But Cases Are Not The Same, USA Today. 

• Alcindor, Y. (2013, February 27). A year after Trayvon Martin death, families reflect, USA Today. 

• Wallace, M. J. (2012, November 12; 7pm CST). The People's Show with Mark J. Wallace. WVON 1690 AM.

• Alcindor, Y. (2012, November 12). Racial slurs at college protests prompt a deeper look, USA Today. 

• McGuinness, C. (2012, April 18). Billboard showcases rising cost of prom, Killean Daily Herald. 

• Lary, B. (Writer). (2010). Educational Psychology in the Classroom [DVD]. In Promedion Productions (Producer), Educational Psychology in the Classroom.