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May 18, 2023 · All children, including White children, learn about race through a process known as racial-ethnic socialization, and scholars say that addressing socialization more purposefully will be necessary for dismantling racism.
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Jan 17, 2022 · In fact, experts at Yale University have found that by 6 months of age, infants can notice differences in skin color and hair textures; by 2 years old, children can point out differences in skin color; by age 3, children can form judgments about people based on racial differences; and by 5 years, a child can show many of the same racial ...
Jun 10, 2020 · Studies show that by 4 years old, children can internalize racial bias, and by the time they’re 12, many kids can become set in their beliefs. Here, Dr. Anderson provides an age-by-age guide for navigating these discussions in a developmentally appropriate way.
Jun 25, 2020 · If your child likes to read, include books when teaching them about racism, Shanice Nicole advises. (CBC) It's also incredibly important that you share stories and resources that are not just...
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- Avoiding Race Conversations Is Privilege
Avoiding conversations about race sends a message that there’s something off-limits, and even bad, about racial differences, said Njoroge, who completed four fellowships at Yale and is also an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and program director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry...
Dr. Amalia Londono Tobon, a board-certified psychiatrist and clinical fellow in the Yale Child Study Center, who collaborates with Njoroge on projects related to race, culture and young children, said different conversations are possible at every stage of a child’s development. “Be comfortable with the fact that you don’t know everything,” she said...
The ability to avoid talking about race is a form of white privilege, the researchers said. In black families, racial differences, and the history of race relations in America, are conversations that happen organically, at all ages, said Njoroge. “For many African-American families, there is that history of segregation, of ‘separate but equal,’ wov...
The budding field of children’s racial learning is deeply rooted in the science of child development. Mounting evidence demonstrates that children are noticing, processing, and making meaning of race early and often, beginning in infancy — long before they are walking and talking.
Aug 10, 2020 · Teaching race awareness and building empathy and emotional literacy will equip children to see race and racism, feel the pain, anger and anguish it's causing them and others and then learn to take age-appropriate action.
