Racial Socialization as Critical Action? Connecting Black and White Parents' Critical Consciousness to Their Anti-Racist Socialization.
Parents' critical consciousness has been theorized to facilitate race conversations that center on how social structures, policies, and historical factors perpetuate inequities, but few studies have investigated this link empirically. The current analysis examines the associations between Black and...
| Published in: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 61; no. 12; pp. 2315 - 2331 |
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Dec2025
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