%0 Journal Article
%T What should young Black children know about race? Parents of preschoolers, preparation for bias, and promoting egalitarianism
%A Fabienne Doucet
%A Meeta Banerjee
%A Stephanie Parade
%J Journal of Early Childhood Research
%@ 1741-2927
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1476718X16630763
%X This qualitative study of 26 African American parents and caregivers of preschool children sought to address gaps in the current literature by exploring how the intersection of parentsĄ¯ racism experiences and social class may play a role in race-related socialization during the early years. Analysis of narrative interviews revealed that egalitarianism surfaced as the most common content of racial socialization (ethnic-racial socialization) messages. We also found that preparation for bias emerged as qualitatively different for the working- and middle-class African Americans, however, and thus, we argue that the ways in which working- and middle-class African American parents of preschoolers made sense of their experiences with racism and discrimination were different and that this shaped their preparation for bias messages differently. To provide a contrast for illustrating this argument, we detail working- and middle-class participantsĄ¯ use of egalitarianism messages in relationship to their stories about racism, proposing here that parents may have been attuning to their young childrenĄ¯s developmental stage when deciding which messages to promote
%K class
%K egalitarianism
%K preschoolers
%K race
%K racism
%K socialization
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1476718X16630763