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  Racial-Ethnic Socialization I chose to read Atkin’s A Qualitative Examination of Familial Racial-Ethnic Socialization Experiences Among Multiracial American Emerging Adults (2021) and Paasch-Anderson’s African Americans Adolescents’ Perceptions of Ethnic Socialization and Racial Socialization as Distinct Processes (2014). Many of the messages from Atkin’s article (2021) are similar to those of Paasch-Anderson’s (2014), such as the sharing of culture through stories and food and the teachings of knowing when to brush-off racist comments. However, there were prominent differences between these two readings. Atkin (2021) sheds light on how difficult it can be to be multiracial. Many young adults in this study expressed how their parents urged them to identify a certain way depending on what the situation is; others expressed how they were encouraged to always identify with all their different racial-ethnic backgrounds. Paasch-Anderson (2014) hit hard on how African Americans were ta...

White Privilege While “white privilege” is a term that was created years ago, it is a term that has only been meaningful to me in the past couple of years. With the protests that arose from the death of George Floyd, I found myself passionately involved in the Black Lives Matter movement: advocating in school, attending protests, and signing petitions. It was during this time that I truly started to look into the term white privilege. When I learned the concept of white privilege, I understood to an extent, however, it was a large concept to grasp. As a hispanic woman, the term made sense, but there is still so much to continue to learn. The journey of learning about racism in America has been, at times, uncomfortable, overwhelming, and oddly empowering. After reading the assigned article The Sugarcoated Language Of White Fragility (Kegler, 2017) I was presented with a perspective that explained how white privilege “is an extremely gentle way of easing White people into awareness” (sub...

  Race and Ethnicity In lecture, we discussed the terms race, ethnicity, and racial identity; these are terms I have always been confused about. In high school I remember filling out forms for standardized tests asking for race and ethnicity. While I know my ethnicity is Hispanic/Latina from discussing family history with my parents, I never understood race. The options seemed limited and I often felt excluded as the options were usually “white, black, etc.” I didn’t feel I identified as any of these options; this is why the term racial identity has cleared up much of my confusion. In class I was introduced to the fact that race is a social construct and actually has nothing to do with ancestry (J Rhodes-Carlson).  After making my list of identities, the only one I again was unsure of was race. I know my nationality being born in the United States. While I know my culture through exposure with primarily my grandparents, I found it interesting the way the textbook explains it...