Family Discussions of Race Impacting Children's Pre-K–12 Schooling

• In Event: 69.057 - Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: 69.057-8 - Race Talk at Home, at School, and in Communities

Abstract

This study examined how discussions (and lack thereof) about race at home influenced the schooling of PK-12 children as well as their socialization and comfort level discussing race.
Study participants included self-identified Black parents of elementary aged children and male youth that dropped out of school and were incarcerated. This study took a two pronged approach to examine how discussions of race plays a role in PK-12 schooling. Parent participants reflected on their own PK-12 schooling and how it influenced the parenting of their own children, specifically around race and race based curricula. Black male youth participants discussed their own experiences in home and at school, and whether their dropping out and incarceration was influenced by their perceptions of race.

Authors

• Tarryn McGhie, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Rebekah Piper, Texas A&M University - San Antonio