Recommended Resources

This page is not an endorsement of the entire content of anything I list. Please use your own judgement of course. However, for folks interested in learning more about antifascist approaches in youth development and developmental science, here are some places to start. This is not comprehensive! There is more great work out there!

 

Peer-reviewed conceptual papers on fascism, antifascism, and youth development

Arbeit, M. R., Burnham, S. L. F., de Four, D., & Cronk, H. (2020). Youth practitioners can counter fascism: What we know and what we need. Journal of Youth Development. 15(5), 37-67. https://doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2020.936

Arbeit, M. R., Negrete, A., Berger, N. P., Dufault, A. E., Onuoha, A. C., & Burnham, S. L. F. (2024). Antifascist praxis in developmental science: Possibilities for collective resistance to fascism. Child Development Perspectives, 18(2), 73-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12501 

Burnham, S. L. F. & Arbeit, M. R. (2023). Social media literacy to confront far-right content: Saying “no” to neutrality. Human Development, 67(3), 117-134. https://doi.org/10.1159/000531765 

Nalani, A., & Yoshikawa, H. (2023). White Christian nationalism and youth development in the USA. Society, 60, 551-565. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00863-8

 

Peer-reviewed empirical papers on fascism, antifascism, and youth development

Arbeit, M. R., Dufault, A. E., Burnham, S. L. F., Onuoha, A. C., Wanjuki, W., & de Four, D. (2025). Early intervention against male supremacist influences among college students: “It’s really not a program that exists”. Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251329186 

Arbeit, M. R., Onuoha, A. C., Burnham, S. L. F., Wanjuki, W., Kozak, K. J., & de Four, D. (2022). From misogynist incels to “one of the shooters”: What can help college sexual violence prevention confront male supremacism? Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 15(4), 309-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/26379112.2022.2132951  

Dufault, A. E., Berger, N. P., & Arbeit, M. R. (2024). College students’ anticipated bystander intervention actions against male supremacism: “Something more needs to be done”. Journal of Adolescent Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584241297138 

Onuoha, A. C., Arbeit, M. R., & Leath, S. (2023). Far-right misogynoir: A critical thematic analysis of Black college women’s experiences with white male supremacist influences. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 47(2), 180-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843231156872 

Onuoha, A. C., Matsuzaka, S., Stanton, A. G., Volpe, V. V., & Avery, L. R. (2024). Young Black American women’s social media use and online victimization. Social Media + Society, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241277607  

Burnham, S. L. F., Arbeit, M. R., & Hilliard, L. J. (2022). The subtle spread of hateful memes: Examining engagement intentions among parents of adolescents. Social Media + Society, 8(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221095100   

Leath, S., Scott, E. D., Rivens, A., Jones, M. K., & Koroma, N. (2022). “We need to see action”: An institutional case study of the Summer of Hate and Black student resistance. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000458 

Williams, J. L., Johnson, H. E., Mims, L. C., Dickerson, K. C., Negrete, A., & Seward, M. (2021). From apathy to vigilance: Young adolescents’ reactions to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(1), 218-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12594

 

Read more about Alexandria Onuoha’s work on stopping far-right misogynoir, protecting Black youth, and centering joy:

Onuoha, A. C. (September 27, 2024). The transformative joy of Black girls. TEDxTalks. Boston, MA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoOSAtBWwz8  

Onuoha, A. C. (2021, April 23). Support Black girlhood in the face of Black death. The Progressive. https://progressive.org/dispatches/black-girlhood-face-of-black-death-onuoha-210423/ 

Onuoha, A. C. (2021, January 16). After Trump’s insurrection colleges should stop coddling the radical right. RANTT Media. https://rantt.com/radical-right-on-college-campuses

Onuoha, A. C. (2022, January 31). The manosphere isn’t just white: Black femicide and the radicalisation of Black male youth. Global Network on Extremism & Technology. https://gnet-research.org/2022/01/31/the-manosphere-isnt-just-white-black-femicide-and-the-radicalisation-of-black-male-youth/  

Protecting Black women college students from ‘far-right misogynoir.’ Suffolk University. https://www.suffolk.edu/news-features/news/2021/04/08/19/08/protecting-black-women-college-students-from-far-right-misogynoir 

Podcasts on fascism and antifascism

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