Racial Socialization and Racial Identity: African American Parents' Messages About Race as Precursors to Identity

This study uses two waves of data to examine the relationships among patterns of racial socialization experiences and racial identity in a sample of 358 African American adolescents (60% female and 40% male). Using latent class analyses, we identified three patterns of adolescent-reported racial soc...

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Published in:Journal of youth and adolescence 2009-02, Vol.38 (2), p.189-203
Main Authors: Neblett, Enrique W. Jr, Smalls, Ciara P, Ford, Kahlil R, Nguyên, Hòa X, Sellers, Robert M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acculturation
Adolescent
Adolescents
African American Children
African American Family
African Americans
African Americans - psychology
Attitudes
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child
Child and School Psychology
Child development
Children & youth
Clinical Psychology
Cluster Analysis
Egalitarianism
Empirical Research
Families & family life
Female
Health Psychology
History of Psychology
Humans
Identity
Ideology
Law and Psychology
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Midwestern United States
Minority & ethnic groups
Multivariate Analysis
Parent Child Relationship
Parenting - ethnology
Parents & parenting
Philosophy
Psychology
Psychology, Adolescent
Race
Race Relations - psychology
Racial discrimination
Racial Identification
Racial identity
Role
Self Concept
Social Identification
Socialization
Teenagers
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Summary:This study uses two waves of data to examine the relationships among patterns of racial socialization experiences and racial identity in a sample of 358 African American adolescents (60% female and 40% male). Using latent class analyses, we identified three patterns of adolescent-reported racial socialization experiences: High Positive, Moderate Positive, and Low Frequency. Adolescent-reported racial socialization experiences at Wave 1 were associated with Wave 2 adolescent racial identity approximately one year later. Specifically, High Positive and Low Frequency racial socialization were associated with racial centrality, assimilationist ideology, and nationalist ideology. These findings suggest that various patterns of racial socialization practices play an important role in the developing significance and meaning that African American adolescents ascribe to race.
ISSN:0047-2891
1573-6601
DOI:10.1007/s10964-008-9359-7