Minority children resist full internalization of discrimination-preparation socialization

Evidence

Parents of young minority children were found to play a very overt role in preparing their youngsters for the discrimination they will inevitably face. Similarly peers exert strong conformity pressures on adolescents. Nonetheless, minority children neither mirror nor mimic fully their environment; most studies indicate that minority identity and attitudes show considerable individual variation (see chapters by Major & Vick and by Jones, chs. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1997

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims on socialization and intergroup attitudes, qualifying purely environmental transmission models of prejudice. — connects to: Children absorb their teachers’ racism through internalized pedagogies of observation — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 244; Mono-racial parents struggle to socialize children into racial worlds they never inhabited. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 130