Of Jewel Heritage: racial socialization and racial identity attitudes amongst adolescents of mixed African–Caribbean/White parentage

Fatimilehin, Iyabo

doi:10.1006/jado.1999.0223

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“…The literature on psychological adjustment provides similar findings. For example, in a study of racial socialisation and racial identity attitudes amongst adolescents of mixed African-Caribbean/White parentage, Fatimilehin (1999) tentatively concludes that dual identification and multicultural environments may be associated with a positive sense of racial identity. Tizard and Phoenix (1993) showed that mixed parentage teenagers who attended multiracial schools were more likely to have a positive racial identity.…”

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“…To obtain the`full size' of the mixed population, that is, all persons of mixed parentage, an operational definition of the type proposed by Berthoud is required. Research shows, however, that many young persons of mixed parentage prefer to identify as Black or with some other group (Phinney and Alipuria 1996, Fatimilehin 1999, Tizard and Phoenix 1993, so self-perceived ethnic group would provide a different measure of this population. In Britain the option to give those of mixed origins a separate pre-designated ethnic group category has been agreed for the 2001 Census.…”

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Operationalising the collection of ethnicity data in studies of the sociology of health and illness

Aspinall

2001

Sociology Health & Illness

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In response to the burgeoning interest in ethnic health issues and related published research, a number of recent contributors have attempted to clarify or systematise the usage of overarching terminology like`ethnicity',`race',`culture', and`racism', including the development of guidelines. However, the operational problems of how to collect ethnicity data in studies of the sociology of health and illness have not been satisfactorily addressed. This paper explores conceptual issues, notably, the meanings of ethnic identity and ethnic origin/ancestry; methodological approaches, including which dimensions to collect, multidimensional versus global measures, and exclusive groups versus optional ethnicity; and also practical issues such as method of assignment. The approach calls for a stronger development of the theoretical understandings of ethnicity and work on how best ethnicity should be conceptualised and measured in the different approaches to explaining ethnic inequalities in health.

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Operationalising the collection of ethnicity data in studies of the sociology of health and illness

Aspinall

2001

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Moreover, the race socialization process is consequential. For instance, race socialization predicts racial identity (see Phinney and Chavira 1995;Sanders Thompson 1994;Stevenson 1994), academic outcomes (see Bowman and Howard 1985), and racial attitudes (see Demo and Hughes 1990), and sometimes acts as a buffer against perceived discrimination (see Fatimilehin 1999;Fischer and Shaw 1999).…”

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Race Socialization Messages Across Historical Time

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Lesane-Brown

2006

Soc Psychol Q

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In this study we investigated whether the content of race socialization messages varied by birth cohort, using data from a national probability sample. Most respondents recalled receiving messages about what it means to be black from their parents or guardians; these messages were coded into five mutually exclusive content categories: individual pride, racial group pride, deference to and fear of whites, color-blind, and whites are prejudiced. We examined three birth cohorts: pre-Brown v. Board of Education, protest, and post-protest. The content of messages varied significantly by cohort. For example, messages conveying deference to and fear of whites were more likely to be transmitted to children coming of age during the pre-Brown v. Board of Education era. We also found that respondents' current racial attitudes were correlated with messages they received during childhood.

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“…Another possibility is that families' and peers' socialization may become more nuanced as adolescents get older. For example, studies on family cultural socialization showed that older adolescents received more frequent cultural socialization messages than their younger counterparts (Fatimilehin, 1999; McHale, et al, 2006). Future studies using samples in middle and late adolescence, or even emerging adulthood, will be important in determining the changes in cultural socialization practices (and changes in individuals' more nuanced evaluations of such practices as overt versus covert) by both families and peers across the early life course.…”

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The Cultural Socialization Scale: Assessing family and peer socialization toward heritage and mainstream cultures.

Wang¹,

Benner²,

Kim³

2015

Psychological Assessment

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In a culturally diverse society, youth learn about multiple cultures from a variety of sources, yet the existing assessment of cultural socialization has been limited to parents' efforts to teach youth about their heritage culture. The current study adapted and extended an existing cultural socialization measure (Umaña-Taylor & Fine, 2004) to assess four types of socialization practices encountered specifically during adolescence: cultural socialization by families and peers toward both one's heritage culture and the mainstream culture. In a pilot study, we developed the cultural socialization scale based on retrospective reports from 208 young adults, maximizing young adults' ability to reason and reflect their adolescent experiences with various socialization practices. In the primary study, we examined the psychometric properties of the scale using reports from 252 adolescents. Cultural socialization occurred from both socialization agents toward both cultures. Our cultural socialization scale demonstrated stable factor structures and high reliabilities. We observed strong factorial invariance across the four subscales (six items). MIMIC models also demonstrated invariance for each subscale across adolescents' demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, race/ethnicity, nativity, SES, language of assessment). The implications of the cultural socialization scale are discussed.

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Of Jewel Heritage: racial socialization and racial identity attitudes amongst adolescents of mixed African–Caribbean/White parentage

Cited by 46 publications

References 21 publications

Operationalising the collection of ethnicity data in studies of the sociology of health and illness

Operationalising the collection of ethnicity data in studies of the sociology of health and illness

Race Socialization Messages Across Historical Time

The Cultural Socialization Scale: Assessing family and peer socialization toward heritage and mainstream cultures.

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