Sociodemographic and Environmental Correlates of Racial Socialization by Black Parents

1990/04/01 by Michael C. Thornton, Linda M. Chatters, Robert Joseph Taylor +1 · 219 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Developmental psychology #Ethnic group #Psychology #Racial differences #Social psychology #Socialization #Sociology #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

paper · doi:10.2307/1131101

published in Child Development 61(2), 401 (Wiley)

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Abstract

Michael C. Thornton, Linda M. Chatters, Robert Joseph Taylor, Walter R. Allen, Sociodemographic and Environmental Correlates of Racial Socialization by Black Parents, Child Development, Vol. 61, No. 2, Special Issue on Minority Children (Apr., 1990), pp. 401-409

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