Conversations about race in Black and White US families: Before and after George Floyd’s death
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Significance: In the United States, Black households and White households have very different conversations about race. After the death of George Floyd, Black parents were even more likely to have such conversations with their children and to prepare their children to experience racial bias than they were before Floyd’s death. White parents were less likely to talk about being White and more likely to socialize their children toward colorblindness. In addition, White parents remained relatively unconcerned that their children may experience or perpetrate racial bias.
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Racial colorblindness shapes how white parents talk, or do not talk, to their children about race.
“and shapes how white parents talk, or do not talk, to their children about race (Hagerman, 2018; Perry et al., 2019; Sullivan et al., 2021).”
From Studying Ethnic-Racial Identity among White Youth: White Supremacy as a Developmental Context (2022) · cites this paper as Sullivan et al., 2021
The Results report that White parents were more likely than Black parents to give children colorblind messages, supporting the claim about how they talk about race. The paper also reports relatively low rates of conversation, but links those rates to parents’ low worry about bias; it does not establish that colorblindness shapes whether White parents talk to their children at all. The cited passages provide section labels but no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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Studying Ethnic-Racial Identity among White Youth: White Supremacy as a Developmental Context
Moffitt, U., & Rogers, L. O. (2022) · Journal of Research on Adolescence · doi:10.1111/jora.12762 · Cited by 81 · see citing works
“Fewer researchers have studied the parallel messaging white youth receive (or do not receive), although research in this area is increasing (Hagerman, 2018; Hughes et al., 2008; Loyd & Gaither, 2018; Perry, 2002; Perry et al., 2019; Sullivan et al., 2021).”
Background
- Authors
- Sullivan, J. N., Eberhardt, J. L., & Roberts, S. O.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sullivan, J. Nicky
- Eberhardt, Jennifer L.
- Roberts, Steven O.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2021-09-13
- Volume
- 118
- Issue
- 38
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC8463880
- OpenAlex
- W3198947926
- Cited by
- 110
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 26.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- CrimRxiv (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Stanford University (Stanford University Dean's Accounts)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
- Keywords
- race conversations, parenting, Black families, White family, George Floyd, racial bias, color vision deficiency, racial identity
- MeSH terms
- Black or African American, Child, Family, Humans, Parents, United States, White People, Racism
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