{"id":50001,"date":"2016-11-17T01:49:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50001"},"modified":"2016-11-17T01:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:54:06","slug":"is-gender-more-important-and-meaningful-than-race-an-analysis-of-racial-and-gender-identity-among-black-white-and-mixed-race-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50001","title":{"rendered":"Is Gender More Important and Meaningful Than Race? An Analysis of Racial and Gender Identity Among Black, White, and Mixed-Race Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Gender More Important and Meaningful Than Race? An Analysis of Racial and Gender Identity Among Black, White, and Mixed-Race Children<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology<\/a>
\nPublished online 2016-10-13
\nDOI: 10.1037\/cdp0000125<\/a><\/p>\n

Leoandra Onnie Rogers<\/strong><\/a>, Research Assistant Professor
\nCollege of Education, Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development
\nUniversity of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew N. Meltzoff<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director
\nInstitute for Learning & Brain Sciences
\nUniversity of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n

Objectives<\/strong>: Social categories shape children\u2019s lives in subtle and powerful ways. Although research has assessed children\u2019s knowledge of social groups, most prominently race and gender, few studies have examined children\u2019s understanding of their own multiple social identities and how they intersect. This paper explores how children evaluate the importance and meaning of their racial and gender identities, and variation in these evaluations based on the child\u2019s own age, gender, and race.<\/p>\n

Method<\/strong>: Participants were 222 Black, White, and Mixed-Race children (girls: n<\/em> = 136; Mage<\/em><\/a> = 9.94 years). Data were gathered in schools via 1-on-1 semistructured interviews. Analyses focused on specific measures of the importance and meaning of racial and gender identity for children.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong>: We found that: (a) children rate gender as a more important identity than race; (b) the meanings children ascribe to gender identity emphasized inequality and group difference whereas the meaning of race emphasized physical appearance and humanism\/equality; and (c) children\u2019s assessments of importance and meaning varied as a function of child race and gender, but not age.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong>: The findings extend research on young children\u2019s social identity development and the role of culture and context in children\u2019s emerging racial and gender identities. Implications for identity theory and development and intergroup relations are discussed.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Gender More Important and Meaningful Than Race? An Analysis of Racial and Gender Identity Among Black, White, and Mixed-Race Children Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Published online 2016-10-13 DOI: 10.1037\/cdp0000125 Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Research Assistant Professor College of Education, Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development University of Washington Andrew N. Meltzoff, Professor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[25439,25438,284,25442,25440,25441],"class_list":["post-50001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-andrew-meltzoff","tag-andrew-n-meltzoff","tag-cultural-diversity-and-ethnic-minority-psychology","tag-leoandra-o-rogers","tag-leoandra-onnie-rogers","tag-leoandra-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50002,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50001\/revisions\/50002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}