Learning race, learning place shaping racial identities and ideas in African American childhoods

Summary: Erin N. Winkler uses in-depth interviews with an economically diverse group of African American children and their mothers to reorient the way we look at how children develop their ideas about race. She shows the importance of considering this process from children's points of view and listening to their interpretations of their experiences. The roles of gender, skin tone, colorblind rhetoric, peers, family, media, school, and, especially, place in developing children's racial identities and ideas are also examined.

Record details

ISBN: 9780813554310 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0813554314 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatBulkString:jan.10.13 Multi-User. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 24, 2012). CatMonthString:jan.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Comprehensive racial learning, grounded in place -- Rhetoric versus reality : ambivalence about race and racism -- Racialized place : comprehensive racial learning through travel -- Place matters : shaping mother's messages -- Competing with society : responsive racial socialization -- Black is black? : gender, skin tone, and comprehensive racial learning -- Conclusion: "i learn being black from everywhere i go" -- Notes -- References -- Index.