Upending White Normativity in Parenting Research

Abaied, Jamie L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-44115-8_7

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“…This framework leads to research with mostly White samples to be valued more, as they better reflect "normal" people. We see this issue of White = Normal across other psychological topics such as parenting research (Abaied, 2023).…”

Section: Psychologymentioning

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Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Normal Human

Prather

2024

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Within cognitive science, research on human cognition relies on the idea of a normative human; that we can study and generalize from normal humans to understand human cognition. This assumption is the only way that using convenience samples to describe cognitive universals makes sense. Cognitive Science is not alone in falling for the idea of a normative person; other social sciences and medical research have sometimes featured this idea. The idea that Cognitive Science research should or could describe normative human cognition is a misleading waste of time for the field. I draw on work from a wide range of fields, including psychology, medicine, disability studies, and biology, to contend that the idea of normative human cognition is mostly useless but not mostly harmless. Rejection of the idea of normative human cognition and reevaluating past work that relies on it is an important step forward for the field.

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Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Normal Human

Prather

2024

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“…There is a rich and growing interdisciplinary literature that documents how parents of color contribute to their children's racial socialization, with multiple meta-analyses supporting the beneficial effects of parent racial socialization for the psychosocial development of youth of color in the United States (Huguley et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2020). In contrast, the literature on racial socialization in White U.S. families is substantially underdeveloped and a nascent area of study, with approximately half of the extant research published since 2021 (Abaied, 2023). In a recent review, Spanierman (2022) finds that the two most common approaches to racial socialization in White families include messages endorsing racial silence-wherein White parents completely avoid discussing race-and colorblind racial ideology (CBRI; Neville et al, 2000Neville et al, , 2013.…”

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White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in white children’s pro-white biases.

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Abaied

et al. 2024

Developmental Psychology

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Although parent-child conversations about race are recommended to curb White U.S. children's racial biases, little work has tested their influence. We designed a guided racism discussion task for U.S. White parents and their 8-12-year-old White children. We explored whether children's and parents' (a) pro-White implicit biases changed pre to postconversation, (b) racial socialization messages (color conscious, external attributions for prejudiced behavior and colorblind racial ideology [CBRI]) predicted changes in each other's implicit biases, and (c) associations varied by the type of racism (subtle vs. blatant) discussed. Children's and parents' biases significantly declined, pre to postdiscussion. Parents' color conscious messages predicted greater declines and messages reflecting CBRI and external attributions predicted smaller declines in children's bias. These patterns were observed during discussions of subtle, but not blatant bias. Effects of children's messages on parents' bias were mixed. Our findings suggest that color conscious parent-child discussions may effectively reduce implicit pro-White bias in White children. Public Significance StatementAlthough they believe it to be beneficial, many White U.S. parents avoid discussing racism with their children or downplay the importance of race when they have these conversations. In the current study, we developed a method to encourage color conscious conversations in White families and found that parents' and children's racial biases reduced after the discussion. Our findings suggest that parentchild discussions about racism may effectively reduce racial biases in White families.

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Upending White Normativity in Parenting Research

Cited by 2 publications

References 113 publications

Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Normal Human

Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Normal Human

White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in white children’s pro-white biases.

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