"I want to lift my people up": Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans.

Objective: This study explores how middle-aged Black Americans talk about race, without prompting, while telling their life stories.

Method: Drawing upon a dataset of lengthy Life Story Interviews (N = 70), we first employed a keyword search to identify race-relevant interview scenes for each participant. Next, we conducted a thematic analysis of these scenes to identify salient racial narrative themes.