Racism And Socialization

According to the article, racism and discrimination are significant threats to healthy development in African American adolescents and young adults. The recent study examined closely whether two types of parental racial socialization messages lessened the effect of racism on the psychological functioning in a sample of 247 African American college students. This article researches whether parental racial socialization messages shield African American young adults from exposure to everyday racism experiences.
Clark and colleagues (1999) model of racism as a stressor that argues that a person’s judgement of a stressful event as a racist is based on a combo of constitutional, sociodemographic, mental, and behavioral factors. Besides that, they claim that when an even seen as racist, it
In present studies taken together, the research suggests that parental racial socialization messages centers on cultural pride and cultural useful coping may have suitable benefits for mental and physical functioning. Messages centralize on reliance on cultural resources such as religion, family, and knowledge of history may lessen psychological problems in people during more often racist experiences because these messages focus on successfully dealing with difficulty in culturally flexible ways. To examine these ideas in more detail, they analyzed whether certain messages reduced the mental and physical effect of racist experiences on psychological functioning. Next, the researchers hypothesized that parental messages centered on the cultural pride and use of cultural resources in successfully dealing with racism obstacles that would lessen the effect of racist experiences on the psychological functioning. As stated in the article, the comparison of students at two separate colleges using one-way ANOVAS showed no differences between students at the HBCU and the PWI on mental/physical stress or distress. Hypothesis 1 showed that more racist experiences would be