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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hughes, Diane L.
• Watford, Jon Alexander

Titel

Racial regularities: Setting‐level dynamics as a source of ethnic‐racial socialization

Ist Teil von

• American journal of community psychology, 2022-09, Vol.70 (1-2), p.3-17

Ort / Verlag

England: Blackwell Science Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A substantial literature has focused on how ethnic‐racial socialization from parents shapes youths' racial identities and the meanings they attach to their own and others' racial group membership. We argue that a critically important source of information to youth about the meaning and significance of race, and therefore a key source of ethnic‐racial socialization, resides in youths' exposure to repeated patterns in the relative social experiences, opportunities, roles, and outcomes experienced by two or more racial groups across levels of the ecological environment. Drawing on Seidman's concept of a “social regularity” we propose the concept of a “racial regularity” to name, describe and define pervasive and repeated intergroup patterns that youth observe through their daily transactions across settings. Additionally, drawing from the socio‐cognitive developmental literature, we consider why and how racial regularities may inform youths' racial knowledge. Finally, we illustrate our perspective using existing ethnographies of racial dynamics in schools and neighborhoods vis‐à‐vis youths' racial knowledge. Highlights Children and adolescents learn about the meaning of race from their everyday experiences in settings. The experiences of and roles occupied by racial groups in a setting relative to each other are key. We need studies in which settings are the unit of measurement and analysis for fuller understanding.