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- Title
Relations Between Colorblind Socialization and Children's Racial Bias: Evidence From European American Mothers and Their Preschool Children.
- Authors
Pahlke, Erin; Bigler, Rebecca S.; Suizzo, Marie‐Anne
- Abstract
To examine European American parents' racial socialization, mothers ( n = 84) were videotaped while reading 2 race-themed books to their 4- to 5-year-old children and completed surveys concerning their racial attitudes and behaviors. Children completed measures of their racial attitudes and both groups (mothers and preschoolers) predicted the others' racial attitudes. Results indicated that nearly all mothers adopted 'colormute' and 'colorblind' approaches to socialization. Furthermore, neither children nor mothers accurately predicted the others' views. Children's racial attitudes were unrelated to their mothers' attitudes but were predicted by their mothers' cross-race friendships; those children whose mothers had a higher percentage of non-European American friends showed lower levels of racial biases than those children whose mothers had a lower percentage of non-European American friends.
- Subjects
RACE awareness in children; RACIAL &; ethnic attitudes; SOCIALIZATION; CHILD psychology research; MOTHER-child relationship; SOCIAL development
- Publication
Child Development, 2012, Vol 83, Issue 4, p1164
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01770.x