Adolescence is a challenging time fraught with developmental changes that influence sociocultural identity, psychosocial and biological development. Integrating a sense of ethnic identity into one’s personal identity is an important task for Black youth during this developmental stage as it impacts aspirations, ideology, and interpersonal identity. Black youth are not only navigating this critical stage but doing so while traversing issues related to a syndemic of injustice rooted in anti-Black racism that permeates the very fabric of our society. This manuscript describes the syndemic of injustice framework as it relates to the ways in which anti-Black racism contributes to experiences of structural, symbolic and interpersonal violence for Black youth and how these experiences of violent oppression ultimately influence the developmental processes involved in identity formation for Black youth. Implications for social work practice are discussed.

青春期是一个充满挑战的时期，充满了影响社会文化认同、心理社会和生物发展的发展变化。将种族认同感融入个人身份是黑人青年在这个发展阶段的一项重要任务，因为它影响愿望、意识形态和人际认同。黑人青年不仅正在经历这个关键阶段，而且还正在应对与根植于渗透到我们社会结构的反黑人种族主义的不公正现象相关的问题。这份手稿描述了不公正框架的综合症，因为它涉及反黑人种族主义如何促成黑人青年的结构性、象征性和人际暴力经历，以及这些暴力压迫经历如何最终影响参与身份形成的发展过程。黑人青年。讨论了对社会工作实践的影响。