I am thrilled that our paper is finally online at Dev Psychology: White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in white children’s pro-white biases. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-53563-001… A thread! 1/N
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In fact, in our 2021 CDEMP paper (from data collected in 2015 shortly after the Charleston church shooting) we found that only 37% of White parents of White children between the ages of 8 and 12 discussed racism or current racial events with their children. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-41292-001 3/N
When we asked parents why they were not discussing racism with their children, they cited reasons like wanting to shield their child from the reality of racism or a belief that racism was irrelevant to their child’s life. 4/N
Some may think White parent's conversations with their children about racism increased after the murder of George Floyd, but in our 2022 JRA paper, we found that that was not the case. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jora.12767
Although White parents reported discussing racism more, when we looked at the data, we found a lot of “empty” messages. This suggests that parents were saying they were discussing for self-presentation purposes but not actually doing the work.
With our newly published study, we brought families into the lab with 3 goals: (1) we wanted to get White parents and their children to talk about racism in a “color conscious” (CC) way. By that, I mean we wanted them to point out prejudice and acknowledge the reality of racism.
Their White children were between the ages of 8 and 12, a period in which a majority of Black children report having experienced racism. These excuses are unacceptable (and we discuss this in our 2022 Current Opinion paper). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22001415 5/N
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