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Propelling Youth Towards Anti-Racist Action: The Role of Family and School Ethnic Racial Socialization (Poster 9)
Fri, April 10, 3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall AAbstract
How caregivers talk with youth about race, racial discrimination, and racial justice (i.e., anti-racism socialization) plays an important role in shaping how adolescents challenge racism (Bañales et al., 2021). Schools can further support parents' messages by engaging with issues of race and equality. This study examines three forms of parent messaging: preparation for bias (i.e., conversations that help youth recognize and cope with racial discrimination), familial sociopolitical discussions (i.e., conversations about current events) (Pinetta et al., 2020), and familial anti-racism socialization (Aldana et al., 2019), and how it informs adolescents' anti-racist political action.
Participants include 396 Black and Latinx high school students from a public charter school located in Los Angeles. We hypothesized that all three parent messages would be positively and significantly associated with political action, and these associations would be stronger for students who report higher levels of critical consciousness socialization at school.
Three stepwise multiple regressions were conducted to examine how parent messages and school critical consciousness socialization were associated with youth anti-racist political action. All three forms of parent anti-racism messages: preparation for bias (t= 3.499, p < .001, β = .212), family sociopolitical discussions (t= 4.883, p < .001, β = .293), and family anti-racist socialization (t= 4.143, p < .001, β = .248), were positively and significantly associated with youth’s political action. Although school critical consciousness had a significant main effect, there were no significant interaction effects between parent anti-racism messages and school critical consciousness socialization.