Citation

Lesane-Brown CL, Brown TN, Tanner-Smith EE, Bruce MA. J. Cross Cult. Psychol. 2010; 41(3): 457-464.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0022022109359688

PMID

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Abstract

This study addressed intergroup differences in how often U.S. families socialized young children to their ethnic/racial heritage using nationally representative survey data gathered as part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K).The sample (N = 18,827) included young White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial children. Among other things, the authors found that families raising young American Indian children were likely to socialize them frequently to their ethnic/racial heritage. Also, most intergroup differences in frequency of ethnic/racial socialization were robust across child gender and parental education.