Racial habits are learned dispositions passed from parent to child

Evidence

Slavery affected and deformed the character of slaveholders by creating habits of mind that distorted their moral sense. These habits were passed along to children. Jefferson wrote: “The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worse of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 232

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the mechanism for ‘racial habits’ — deformed moral sense transmitted across generations — central to the reader’s definitional goal.
• XREF: connects to: Body ideals are culturally manufactured through deliberate childhood practices — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 429; Parents’ racist normalization and views often precede a son’s radicalization — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 310; Conflicting familial racial messages create cultural dissonance in Multiracial adolescents. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 114 (+2 more)