2-060 - Empowering intentional, intersectional, and humanizing socialization messages: How do we start young?

Session Type: Conversation Roundtable

Integrative Statement

This Roundtable is designed to develop scholarly and broader capacity for critical racial socialization discussions as they intersect with other socialization messages (e.g., ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, religion, immigrant status, and ability) particularly for young children. Racial and ethnic socialization are generally conceptualized as compensatory and protective processes engaged in by ethnic and racial non-dominant families to help prepare their children and adolescents for negative social bias (Hughes, Rodriguez, Smith, Johnson, Stevenson, & Spicer 2006). This Roundtable encompasses socialization messages around all privileged and minoritized identities with an aim at identifying micro-socialization messages and how they affect children’s development as well as the capacities for socialization agents (e.g., caregivers, educators, peers, researchers, media) to re-message intentionally. Grounded in an intersectional perspective, this Roundtable explores processes that inform racial (and other) socialization messages consumed broadly by children across contexts, but with a particular focus on school-based locations and embedded in cultural and contextual ecologies. The tri-pronged Roundtable foci include conceptualizing socialization messages and how they relate to identity development, discussing ways to study and measure socialization practices and related processes in children’s everyday contexts, and addressing how to develop intentional, intersectional, and humanizing socialization messages by a range of socialization agents. The child-centered discussion seeks to identify interventions and how to re-message at personal, social, and structural levels. Considerable time will be reserved for audience questions and discussion.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Moderator

• Mona M. Abo-Zena, University of Massachusetts Boston

Panelists

• Marisha Humphries, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Corrie Locke-Hardy, Simmons College

• Zachary Price, University of Massachusetts Boston

• Margary Martin, University of Hawai'i at Hilo