Research & Publications

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

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.

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.    ​

Robbins, P. A., Smith, L. V., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2017). Black Boys & Their Racial Identity: Learning how they fit into society and in your classroom. In E. Moore, M. Penick-Parks & A. Michael (Eds.), Guide for White Women Teaching Black Boys. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press.

 

Thomas, D. E., Coard, S. I., Stevenson, H. C., Bentley, K. L., & Zamel, P. C. (2009). Racial and emotional factors predicting teachers' perceptions of classroom behavioral maladjustment for urban African American male youth. Psychology in the Schools, 46(2), 184-196. DOI: 10.1002/pits.20362

Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Thomas, D. E., & Stevenson, H. (2013). Raising Consciousness: Promoting healthy coping among African American boys at school. In C. Clauss-Ehlers, Z. Serpell & M. Weist (Eds.), Handbook of Culturally Responsive School Mental Health: Advancing Research, Training, Practice, and Policy Springer.    

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

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2016, February 4). We Need to Change How We Teach Black History. Time. Retrieved from http://time.com/4208013/black-history-month-education/

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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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). 

Scott, M. J., Robbins, P. A., Conde, E., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2022). Depression in the African American Christian Community: Examining Denominational and Gender Differences. Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01528-2 

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Robbins, P. A., & Hubbard, L. (2021). Eat, Pray, Live: A closer look at the role of gender and denomination in the faith-health connection for African Americans. Retrieved from Durham, NC

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Robbins, P. A., Blackman Carr, L. T., Smith, I. Z., Conde, E., & Darity Jr., W. A. Denominational Differences in Obesity Among Black Christian Adults: Why Gender and Life Stage Matter. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

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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

Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Robbins, P. A., & Hubbard, L. (2021). Eat, Pray, Live: A closer look at the role of gender and denomination in the faith-health connection for African Americans. Durham, NC.

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Kazouh, A., Hollowell, A., Fox, L., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2020). Pre-K through 12 Education and COVID-19: Landscape Analysis of Impact Indicators. Public School Forum of North Carolina.

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Smith, I. Z., Blackman Carr, L. T., El-Amin, S., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., & Darity Jr, W. A. (2019). Inequity in Place: Obesity Disparities and the Legacy of Racial Residential Segregation and Social Immobility.Durham, NC.

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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. Durham, NC:

Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2020). The third Black President of the United States, A story of Black women in academia.

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2016, February 4). We Need to Change How We Teach Black History. Time.

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

Pasquale, D. K., Welsh, W., Olson, A., Yacoub, M., Moody, J., Barajas Gomez, B. A., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., McCall, J., Solis-Guzman, M. L., Dunn, J. P., Woods, C. W., Petzold, E. A., Bowie, A. C., Singh, K., & Huang, E. S. (2023). Scalable Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Augment Public Health Activities During Epidemic Peaks. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000001780 

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Thomas, J., Eckstrom, E., Lam, W. K. K., Sullivan, S., Bentley-Edwards, K., Gierisch, J. M., & Bowling, C. B. (2023). Recommendations for using the 5Ts Framework to support research inclusion across the lifespan. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18359 

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Chen, E., Hollowell, A., Truong, T., Bentley-Edwards, K., Myers, E., Erkanli, A., Holt, L., & Swartz, J. J. (2023). Contraceptive Access and Use Among Undergraduate and Graduate Students During COVID-19: Online Survey Study. JMIR Form Res, 7, e38491. https://doi.org/10.2196/38491 

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Scott, M., & Robbins, P. A. (2022). How Systemic Racism and Preexisting Conditions Contributed to COVID-19 Disparities for Black Americans. In G. Wright, W. A. Darity Jr, & L. Hubbard (Eds.), The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America (pp. 29-45). Duke University Press. 

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Fleming, P., Doherty, I. A., Whicker, D., Mervin-Blake, S., & Barrett, N. (2022). The 5Ws of Racial Equity in Research: A Framework for Applying a Racial Equity Lens Throughout the Research Process. Health Equity, 6(1), 917-921. https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2022.0042

 

Carr, L. T. B., Bell, C., Alick, C., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2022). Responding to Health Disparities in Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions and COVID-19 in Black Adults: Recommendations for Health Equity. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01269-8 

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Hollowell, A., Swartz, J., Myers, E., Erkanli, A., Hu, C., Shin, A., & Bentley-Edwards, K. (2022). Telemedicine services in higher education: a review of college and university websites. Journal of American College Health, 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2047703 

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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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Smith, I. Z., Blackman Carr, L. T., El-Amin, S., Bentley-Edwards, K. L., & Darity Jr, W. A. (2019). Inequity in Place: Obesity Disparities and the Legacy of Racial Residential Segregation and Social Immobility.Durham, NC.

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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. 

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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. Durham, NC:

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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.

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Chen, E., Hollowell, A., Truong, T., Bentley-Edwards, K., Myers, E., Erkanli, A., Holt, L., & Swartz, J. J. (2023). Contraceptive Access and Use Among Undergraduate and Graduate Students During COVID-19: Online Survey Study. JMIR Form Res, 7, e38491. https://doi.org/10.2196/38491 

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Bentley-Edwards, K. L., Scott, M., & Robbins, P. A. (2022). How Systemic Racism and Preexisting Conditions Contributed to COVID-19 Disparities for Black Americans. In G. Wright, W. A. Darity Jr, & L. Hubbard (Eds.), The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America (pp. 29-45). Duke University Press. 

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Carr, L. T. B., Bell, C., Alick, C., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (2022). Responding to Health Disparities in Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions and COVID-19 in Black Adults: Recommendations for Health Equity. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01269-8