Psychology

The role of racial socialization in promoting the academic expectations of African American adolescents: Realities in a post-brown era

Document Type

Article

Abstract

While segregation in public schools was found unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas case in 1954, many present day African American students still attend segregated schools. Within these de facto segregated schools, students meet challenges to educational achievement. In a sample of 160 African American students, the current study examined the relationships among parental racial socialization techniques, school-based discrimination, and future academic expectations. Results showed that cultural socialization messages from parents are salient as these messages act as moderators in the relationship between future academic expectations and peer and teacher-based discrimination, respectively. Thus, in de facto segregated public schools, messages that African American parents give their students assist their students in developing resilient educational pathways.

Publication Title

Journal of Negro Education

Publication Date

2014

Volume

83

Issue

3

First Page

281

Last Page

299

ISSN

0022-2984

DOI

10.7709/jnegroeducation.83.3.0281

Keywords

discrimination, future expectations, peers, racial socialization, teachers

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