American racism is deeply engrained in the nation’s ecology including its chronosystem and contributes to the nation’s unavoidably shared vulnerability. Interrogating an accurate portrayal of the nation’s history is informative for securing anti-racist research. This special issue commentary discusses the role of Spencer’s phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST) as a means of providing an epistemic framing for disentangling and directly addressing the problem of structural racism in the conduct of science. Additionally it demonstrates the efficacy of PVEST and offers conclusions as opportunities for achieving anti-racist scholarship especially significant to adolescents’ well-being and the improved conduct of developmental science.

美国的种族主义深深植根于国家生态系统，包括其时间系统，并助长了国家不可避免的共同脆弱性。询问国家历史的准确描述对于确保反种族主义研究是有益的。这篇特刊评论讨论了斯宾塞的现象学变体生态系统理论 (PVEST) 作为一种为解开和直接解决科学行为中的结构性种族主义问题提供认识框架的手段的作用。此外，它展示了 PVEST 的功效，并提供了作为实现反种族主义奖学金的机会的结论，这对青少年的福祉和发展科学的改进行为尤其重要。