Key takeaways for caregivers
- Parents, peers, and schools all represent crucial influences that shape how white1 adolescents make sense of racism and their actions toward social justice.
- Having explicit conversations with white youth about racism and embedding children in racially diverse environments that acknowledge race are essential to countering the dominant color-blind narrative that race “doesn’t matter.”
- Conversations about race with white youth must go beyond simply acknowledging historical and contemporary racism toward encouraging anti-racist attitudes and actions to address inequities.
