Overview
- Examines the ways in which families can address racial and ethnic inequalities and racism
- Explores impacts of racial and ethnic inequalities on health, education, and other family and family member outcomes
- Describes structural racism, debunks myths of racial progress, and explores issues of race and racism in family research
Part of the book series: National Symposium on Family Issues (NSFI, volume 14)
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This book examines the ways in which families can address racial and ethnic inequalities and racism and the impacts of these systems on health, education, and other family and family member outcomes. It addresses the historical context of race and racism in the United States, ethnic-racial socialization in families of color, and White parents’ attitudes and practices related to antiracist socialization. Chapters describe structural racism, debunk the myth of racial progress, and explore the representation of race and racism in family research; provide a historical account of ethnic-racial socialization literature, propose a model of ethnic-racial socialization of Latinx families; describe how racial socialization can be used therapeutically; and address White normativity, expand models of White racial socialization and learning, and grapple with the complexities of antiracist socialization. Finally, the volume offers recommendations for the field of family research to meaningfully include race and racism as well as provides suggestions for translational work in this area related to policies, programs, and practice.
Featured areas of coverage include:
- Ethnic and racial socialization among families of color.
- White racial socialization and racial learning.
- Antiracist socialization.
- Opportunities for family research on race and racism to be used to enhance family policies and intervention programming.
Family Socialization, Race, and Inequality in the United States is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, family studies, and sociology, as well as interrelated disciplines, including demography, social work, prevention science, public health, educational policy, political science, and economics.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Race and Racism in the United States
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Racial/Ethnic Socialization in Families of Color
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Antiracist Socialization in White Families
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Conclusions and Future Directions
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dawn P. Witherspoon, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and former McCourtney Early Career Professor of Psychology at Penn State. Dr. Witherspoon is also the Director of PACT, Parents and Children Together, a community-university partnership to enhance the lives of diverse children, youth, and families in the greater Harrisburg, PA region. Her research focuses on the ways in which families and youth are influenced by the contexts in which they are embedded, particularly focusing on how neighborhood, family, and race/ethnicity-related factors affect adolescents’ academic, psycho-social, and behavioral well-being.
Susan M. McHale, Ph.D., is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Professor of Demography at Penn State. Her research focuses on children's and adolescents' family roles, relationships, and daily experiences and how these family dynamics are linked to youth development and adjustment. Dr. McHale’s research highlights family gender dynamics and the role of sociocultural practices and values in youth development and well-being.
Valarie King, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development and Family Studies and an Associate of the Population Research Institute at Penn State. Her research focuses on intergenerational relationships across the life course and their implications for the health, well-being, and development of family members. Dr. King’s most recent work focuses on elucidating the factors that promote the development of strong ties between children and their stepfathers, and the ways in which stepfathers can promote children’s well-being.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Socialization, Race, and Inequality in the United States
Editors: Dawn P. Witherspoon, Susan M. McHale, Valarie King
Series Title: National Symposium on Family Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44115-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44114-1Published: 07 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44117-2Published: 07 November 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44115-8Published: 06 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2192-9157
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9165
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 236
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Family, Group and Systematic Therapy, Clinical Psychology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Public Health, Political Science
Keywords
- Black families, racism, religion
- Coping, racism, families
- Counseling, training, racism, families, therapy
- Education, racism, families, America
- Ethnic socialization, race, families of color
- Ethnic-racial identity (ERI), racial-ethnic, identity families
- Family research, race, racism, politics
- Historical context, racism, inequality, families
- Immigrants, racism, families, United States
- Latinx families, racism, socialization, America
- Prosocial behaviors, racism, families, children
- Racial disparities, families, United States
- Racial progress, myth, post-race America
- Resilience, race, families
- School engagement, racism, families, children
- Socioeconomic context, racism, inequality, families
- Structural racism, racial inequality, poverty, families
- Wealth accumulation, race, families, United States
- White normativity, family research, racism
- Youth mental health, racism, stressors, families