Like most people, we make New Year’s resolutions in an attempt to motivate ourselves to achieve hard to obtain goals, whether they be to get straight A’s in school, lose weight, save more money, or get a new job.
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Compared to other Latinx/Hispanic, White/Caucasian, and Black/African American adolescents, Asian American adolescents experience higher levels of anxiety and reach the clinical threshold more frequently.
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Intersectionality, a term coined by Dr. Kimberelé Crenshaw, refers to the idea that systems of oppression are inherently bound together, and thus create singular social experiences for people who bear the force of multiple systems. In her TED Talk on the urgency of intersectionality, Crenshaw explains that being both a person of color and a woman is strikingly different than being either a woman or a person of color.
