Negotiating Boundaries and Bonds: Frequency of Young Children's Socialization to Their Ethnic/Racial Heritage

摘要

This study addressed intergroup differences in how often U.S. families socialized young childrento their ethnic/racial heritage using nationally representative survey data gathered as part of theEarly Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K).The sample (N =18,827) included young White, Black, Hispanic,Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander,AmericanIndian, and multiracial children.Among other things, the authors found that families raising youngAmerican Indian children were likely to socialize them frequently to their ethnic/racial heritage.Also, most intergroup differences in frequency of ethnic/racial socialization were robust acrosschild gender and parental education.