Luke J. Rapa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Human Development at Clemson University, USA. He is co-editor of Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth: Contexts and Settings (2023) and Disproportionality and Social Justice in Education (2022). He was Clemson University's College of Education Junior Researcher of the Year in 2022. Erin B. Godfrey is Associate Professor of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, USA. She is co-editor of Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement (2023) and an editorial board member for the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. She won NYU Steinhardt's W. Gabriel Carras Research Award in 2013 and NYU Steinhardt's Griffiths Research Award in 2018.

• Introduction: critical consciousness theory and measurement: mapping the complexity of the terrain Luke J. Rapa and Erin B. Godfrey; Part I. Theory: 1. Synthesizing critical consciousness and identity-based motivation to clarify how youth of color navigate and challenge racial capitalism Andres Pinedo, Gabrielle Kubi and Matthew A. Diemer; 2. Situating critical consciousness within the developmental system: insights from the phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory Sara Suzuki, Sara K. Johnson and Kevin A. Ferreira van Leer; 3. Integrating critical consciousness and social empathy: a new framework to enhance conscientization Luke J. Rapa, Candice W. Bolding and Cari Allyn Brooks; 4. Critical consciousness in early to middle childhood Amy E. Heberle, Flóra Faragó and Noah Hoch; 5. Adolescent's developmental pathways to critical consciousness in the contexts of racial oppression and privilege Laura Wray-Lake, Jason A. Plummer and Lauren Alvis; 6. Making reflection critical: structural and historical attributions for inequity Esther Burson, Erin B. Godfrey, Riana M. Brown and Deanna A. Ibrahim; Part II. Measurement: 7. Critical consciousness measurement: a brief history, current status, and new directions Luke J. Rapa, Sarah E. McKellar and Erin B. Godfrey; 8. Using social network analysis to identify individual and structural precursors for promoting critical consciousness in childhood and adolescence Mariah Kornbluh, Jennifer Watling Neal and Mackenzie Hart; 9. Conceptualizing adolescent's daily critical consciousness: a model and research agenda Corine P. Tyler, Kelly D. Chandler, Shauna L. Tominey, Svea G. Olsen, Linda J. Fenske and Kara McElvaine; 10. Measurement and analysis in quantitative critical consciousness research: attending to the complexities of systems and selves Sara K. Johnson, Matthew N. Gee, Autumn Diaz and Rachel Hershberg; 11. The development of the contemporary critical consciousness measure-short Richard Q. Shin, Shereen Ashai, Manuel Teran Hernandez, Yun Lu, Brian Keum and Sarah Essner; Conclusion: expanding critical consciousness theory and measurement: a not-so-slow train coming Luke J. Rapa and Erin B. Godfrey.

'Critical consciousness is the antidote for oppression. In a time when hate groups and oppressive laws are on the rise, a book on critical consciousness is desperately needed. The editors and authors of this volume all center our current sociopolitical context and provide unique perspectives for understanding critical consciousness.' Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, University of Colorado Denver, USA