Age and Skin Tone as Predictors of Positive and Negative Racial Attitudes in Hispanic Children

Stokes-Guinan, Katie

doi:10.1177/0739986310389303

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“…To assess children’s attitudes toward Mexican culture at W6, we adapted the Preschool Racial Attitudes II Measure originally created by Williams, Best, and Boswell (1975), and further refined by Kowalski (2003) and Stokes-Guinon (2011). In Williams and colleagues’ (1975) measure, children were shown a series of 24 pictures and related stories that featured either a positive adjective (e.g., good) or a negative adjective (e.g., naughty).…”

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Longitudinal relations among Mexican-origin mothers’ cultural characteristics, cultural socialization, and 5-year-old children’s ethnic–racial identification.

Derlan¹,

Umaña‐Taylor²,

Updegraff³

et al. 2017

Developmental Psychology

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The current longitudinal study examined the intergenerational transmission of ethnic-racial identity/identification and cultural orientation among Mexican-origin adolescent young mothers and their children (N = 161 dyads). Findings indicated that mothers’ ethnic-racial identity and their cultural involvement were significantly associated with children’s ethnic-racial identification via mothers’ cultural socialization; however, associations varied significantly by children’s gender and skin tone. For example, mothers’ ethnic-racial centrality was positively associated with cultural socialization efforts among mothers with sons (regardless of skin tone); but with daughters, a positive association only emerged among those with lighter skin tones. Associations between cultural socialization and children’s ethnic-racial identification also varied by children’s gender and skin tone. For example, the relation between mothers’ cultural socialization and children’s self-labeling as Mexican was positive for girls regardless of skin tone, and for boys with lighter skin tones, but was not significant for boys with darker skin tones. Findings highlight the critical role of children’s own characteristics, mothers’ ethnic-racial identity and mothers’ adaptive cultural characteristics, and mothers’ cultural socialization efforts in the formation of young Mexican-origin children’s ethnic-racial identification.

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Longitudinal relations among Mexican-origin mothers’ cultural characteristics, cultural socialization, and 5-year-old children’s ethnic–racial identification.

Derlan¹,

Umaña‐Taylor²,

Updegraff³

et al. 2017

Developmental Psychology

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“…Stokes-Guinan (2011) concludes that Latino children's self-reported skin tone is not correlated with their racial attitudes. However, using the 2006 Latino National Survey, Barreto and Sanchez (2008) find that skin tone does shape Latino attitudes toward African Americans.…”

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Taking a New Perspective to Latino Racial Attitudes

Wilkinson

Earle

2012

American Politics Research

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Recent research has taken note of the steadfast growth of the Latino population in the United States by examining Latino attitudes toward those commonly identified as nonimmigrants, Whites and Blacks. Extant literature on Latino racial attitudes explores the determinants of Latinos' perceptions of commonality with Whites and Blacks, yet it has greatly overlooked the impact that skin tone, a key differentiating factor of Latinos, has in explaining these attitudes. Using the 2006 Latino National Survey, we develop models that examine the extent that skin tone explains Latinos' commonality with Whites and Blacks. We find that self-reported skin tone considerably explains Latinos' attitudes toward Whites and Blacks with light-skinned Latinos sensing greater commonality with Whites and less commonality with Blacks than dark-skinned Latinos. We also find that skin tone moderates the relationship between linked fate with Latinos and closeness with Whites and the relationship between social contact and closeness with Blacks and Whites.

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“…A great deal of social science research on young children's racial attitudes has focused on Black-White dynamics, with few exceptions (Gibson et al, 2015;Griffiths & Nesdale, 2006;Killen, Henning, Kelly, Crystal, & Ruck, 2007). As a result, much of what we know about intergroup attitudes among the young, particularly in the US context, is based upon majority-minority relations (e.g., Whites' attitudes toward Blacks, Blacks' attitudes toward Whites) with current gaps in our understanding, in particular, of Latina/o children's attitudes (Stokes-Guinan, 2011). Importantly, demographic shifts necessitate the construction of instruments that reflect the multiracial milieu and can capture intricacies of intergroup dynamics, starting in childhood (Bobo & Hutchings, 2003).…”

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Development and psychometric validation of a child Racial Attitudes Index (RAI)

2017

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The Racial Attitudes Index (RAI) measures a child's racial attitudes. Designed for children aged 5-9 years, the RAI is delivered over the Internet using Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI). Unlike traditional binary forced-choice instruments, the RAI uses an expanded response format permitting a more nuanced understanding of patterns of children's racial attitudes. In addition to establishing psychometric evidence of the RAI technical adequacy, hypotheses about RAI item response patterns were tested. The racial attitudes of 336 Black and White children in grades K-3 were assessed using a forced-choice instrument (Preschool Racial Attitudes Measure II) and the RAI. Findings from this study indicate measures obtained with the RAI are technically adequate, and the measure functions invariantly across racial groups. Also, patterns of children's racial attitudes measured with the RAI are more nuanced than those obtained using the forced-choice response format.Keywords Racial and ethnic attitude and relations . Prejudice . Childhood development . Social cognitionEvidence from explicit attitudes research shows that young children display racial biases as early as 3 to 5 years of age

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Age and Skin Tone as Predictors of Positive and Negative Racial Attitudes in Hispanic Children

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Longitudinal relations among Mexican-origin mothers’ cultural characteristics, cultural socialization, and 5-year-old children’s ethnic–racial identification.

Longitudinal relations among Mexican-origin mothers’ cultural characteristics, cultural socialization, and 5-year-old children’s ethnic–racial identification.

Taking a New Perspective to Latino Racial Attitudes

Development and psychometric validation of a child Racial Attitudes Index (RAI)

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