Hi @BettyAZ!! This is such an incredible conversation! I think that your suggestions for immigrant parents is important because many neglect to be intentional about teaching their kids about racism. In fact I recently attended a conference where a scholar gave a talk about it! I'll try and find the abstract/summary and paste it here. Maybe you might consider reaching out to her and having a conversation for your audience?
@tunyamu
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Update: I've copied the abstract/talk summary exactly as it was in the conference program. Talk title: "I want my father to tell me how I should deal with being Black in America": Disruption in racial socialization in Black African immigrant households. Speaker: Prof. Faith Maina - Texas Tech University Abstract/Talk summary: Racial socialization, the process in which parents transmit knowledge about race to their children, is a critical aspect of racial identity development. However, children of Black African immigrant parents experience a divergent racial identity formation. This divergence results in the absence of crucial support in dealing with racism during early development. Using a racial socialization conceptual framework, this chapter explores how Black African immigrant parents and their first-generation children navigate conversations about race and racism. We used a narrative analysis on data obtained from a panel discussion with Black African children who immigrated with their parents when they were young or who were born in the host country. Findings indicated that Black African immigrant parents lacked the tools to prepare their first-generation children to navigate a systemic racist landscape. The young adult children participants in this study reported experiencing many incidents of racial and racist attacks during their childhood and adolescence, but often failed to share with their parents for fear of rebuke or fear that their hurt feelings would not be validated. First generation children had to navigate issues of racism alone, causing tension between themselves and their parents. It is clear that racial socialization of first-generation children of Black African immigrants is lacking, which can significantly impact parent-child relationships. These findings highlight the need for new educational approaches to equip Black African immigrant parents with tools, skills, knowledge and resources to socially support their first-generation children as they navigate a structurally racist system.
@Favour-s1f
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Nice meeting you here,am in Oregon can we do a collab sister 😊
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