[New post] Black, But Not White, Families Talked More About Race After The Murder of George Floyd

BPS Research Digest posted: " By Emily Reynolds Conversations about race can be seriously beneficial to children. Research has highlighted multiple positive outcomes for young people of all backgrounds — enhanced ability to accept different viewpoints and perspectives, increased l" New post on Research Digest Black, But Not White, Families Talked More About Race After The Murder of George Floyd by BPS Research Digest By Emily Reynolds Conversations about race can be seriously beneficial to children. Research has highlighted multiple positive outcomes for young people of all backgrounds — enhanced ability to accept different viewpoints and perspectives, increased levels of empathy, a better understanding of their own identity, and less racial bias to name but a few. Yet some parents are still unwilling to take the time to have such conversations. A new study, published in PNAS, finds that readiness to have such conversations has a lot to do with the racial identity of parents themselves. Looking at family conversations in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, the Stanford University team finds that even in the context of the global conversation that followed the racially charged killing, White parents were far less willing to have conversations about race than their Black peers. Read more of this post BPS Research Digest | November 1, 2021 at 10:00 am | Categories: Social | URL: https://wp.me/p7Lf0f-bwj Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Research Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/11/01/black-but-not-white-families-talked-more-about-race-after-the-murder-of-george-floyd/