I created this illustration and one other infographic for a fantastic report put out by the Applied Research Center and Colorlines.com about young people and how the issue of race affects them.

The Applied Research Center, which publishes Colorlines.com, found this narrative a bit too tidy. So Research Director Dom Apollon and his team did something that needs to happen more often: Actually ask young people what they think about race. They conducted more than a dozen in-depth focus group discussions in the Los Angeles-area with 80 young people like Andy and Jose, ages 18 to 25, on the intersections of race with key systems of society. They found a far more nuanced set of ideas than conventional wisdom has asserted. Download the full findings of the focus groups at ARC.org. Below, Apollon explores the findings in a three-part Colorlines series. Part two, which will bepublished next week, will explore the language young people use to discuss race. Part three will highlight innovative groups working with young people to organize around structural racism.