Despite a robust volume of evidence documenting adverse effects of racial discrimination experiences on adolescent adjustment outcomes, relatively little is known about the relational consequences of racial discrimination experiences for adolescent friendship networks. To address this gap, this study examines how racial discrimination experiences shape and are shaped by friendship network dynamics in early and middle adolescence. The current study’s goals were to explicate whether relational consequences of racial discrimination experiences for friendship network selection differed between interracial and intraracial friendships among Black and Latinx youth, and how these adolescents were influenced by their friends’ racial discrimination experiences. Longitudinal social network analysis was used among a sample of predominantly Latinx and Black middle school students from the southwestern U.S. (n = 1034; 50.1% boys, Mage = 12.1, 13.8% White, 18.6% Black, 53.1% Latinx, 14.4% Other race and multiracial). The results showed that Black and Latinx youth preferred intraracial friends. Above and beyond that, Black youth were more likely to have intraracial friendships when the focal individual reported lower levels of general racial discrimination experiences and higher levels of adult-perpetrated racial discrimination experiences. Black and Latinx adolescents reported increases in general racial discrimination experiences over time, as a function of their friends reporting higher levels of racial discrimination (e.g., peer influence). These findings advance developmental research by showing that racial discrimination experiences are consequential for friendship network dynamics by increasing the likelihood of intraracial friend selection among Black youth and through peer influence processes.

尽管有大量证据证明种族歧视经历对青少年适应结果的不利影响，但人们对种族歧视经历对青少年友谊网络的关系后果知之甚少。为了解决这一差距，本研究调查了种族歧视经历如何塑造青春期早期和中期的友谊网络动态，以及如何塑造友谊网络动态。当前研究的目标是阐明种族歧视经历对友谊网络选择的关系后果在黑人和拉丁裔青年的跨种族和跨种族友谊之间是否不同，以及这些青少年如何受到他们朋友的种族歧视经历的影响。n  = 1034；50.1% 男孩，男年龄 = 12.1，白人 13.8%，黑人 18.6%，拉丁裔 53.1%，其他种族和多种族 14.4%）。结果表明，黑人和拉丁裔青年更喜欢异族朋友。除此之外，当焦点个体报告较低水平的一般种族歧视经历和较高水平的成年人犯下的种族歧视经历时，黑人青年更有可能建立种族间的友谊。黑人和拉丁裔青少年报告说，随着时间的推移，普遍的种族歧视经历有所增加，这是由于他们的朋友报告了更高程度的种族歧视（例如，同伴影响）。