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ERIC Number: EJ1399143
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
EISSN: EISSN-1939-0599
Does Racial Diversity Affect White Children's Racial Bias and Reasoning? Depends on Where They Live and How Their Social World Is Structured
Burke, Nicole; Rizzo, Michael T.; Britton, Tobias C.; Rhodes, Marjorie
Developmental Psychology, v59 n11 p2094-2104 2023
By 4 years of age, White children from across the United States begin to exhibit an awareness of racial inequalities, along with in-group preferences for other White children. The present study explored how the size and racial diversity of White children's social network (e.g., friends, family, and classmates) and neighborhood (zip code) are related to variation in their explanations for racial disparities and anti-Black bias among a sample of 395 White children (ages = 4-11 years old; M[subscript age] = 6.6 years) from 263 unique zip codes across the United States. White children in "neighborhoods" with low diversity were more likely to endorse an extrinsic explanation for racial inequality as their "network" diversity increased, whereas network diversity did not relate to children's choices for those who lived in neighborhoods with high diversity. These findings held even after controlling for parents' beliefs about diversity, which were themselves positively correlated with children's network and neighborhood diversity. An exploratory analysis revealed that for White children in small networks only, as the number of children of color in their network increased, they were more likely to choose to play with a Black child. Results demonstrate how the diversity of children's social networks and neighborhoods relates to children's developing racial beliefs in contextually dependent ways.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 2017375
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