Social lunch -- Andres Pinedo, (University of Michigan).

Anti-Black racism remains rampant in the United States (US) as is evidenced by persistent disparities between Black and White Americans in terms of wealth, health, incarceration, and education. Given persistent anti-Blackness, it is critical to uncover the factors that promote solidarity with Black people among non-Black people–particularly among other racially marginalized groups in the US because most research on solidarity focuses on White allies (Craig & Richeson, 2016). To date, the literature on stigma-based solidarity suggests that among People of Color, perceptions of injustice against one’s group can elicit solidarity with other racially marginalized groups, but at other times can elicit negative feelings toward racial outgroups. Recent theorizing suggests that critical consciousness, or more specifically a structural-historical understanding of inequality, is a key factor for promoting solidarity across racial groups (Burson & Godfrey, 2020). Further, models of collective action which incorporate ethnic-racial identity, egalitarianism, sociopolitical efficacy, and anger at injustice as predictors of collective action can be fruitful in understanding stigma-based solidarity (van Zomeran, 2013; Ho & Kteily, 2020). To integrate and extend theories of stigma-based solidarity and collective action, I employ latent profile analyses to examine how critical consciousness, sociopolitical efficacy, ethnic-racial identity centrality, egalitarianism, and anger at injustice pattern together in a sample of 459 Latinx and Native high school students. These analyses revealed 3 profiles (Approaching Critical but Unengaged; Engaged but Uncritical; Critical and Engaged) of students differentiated primarily by their critical reflection, and these profiles differed in their solidarity with Black people. The implications of these findings for stigma-based solidarity and collective action will be discussed.