Racial Socialization and Preschoolers’ Socio-emotional Development

This qualitative study aims to understand the strategies that parents adopt to transit information, values and perspectives about race and ethnicity to their children in the pre-school age group (3-5 years) and the way in which these practices impacts the social emotional development of children. We address the aims using qualitative research method of one-on-one interviews with parents. Parents are recruited from the A. Sophie Rogers School of Learning.

This study has three specific aims:

Aim I: What parental ethnic-racial socialization strategies do parents use with their preschool age children?

Aim II: How do traumatic external forces (police brutality, social media, neighborhood violence) influence the messages that parents send to their children?

Aim III: How do parental socialization practices impact students’ social emotional development.