Black youth overwhelmingly experience racial discrimination (RD). Racial socialization (RS), or racial communication between families, mitigates RD stress by expanding youth coping strategies. Although most Black parents currently discuss racial content with their children, less is known about this RS quality. The burgeoning construct of RS competency, or the skills, confidence, and stress of RS transmission, explores these emotion-focused approaches. Drawing on the racial encounter coping appraisal and socialization theory (RECAST), the current study seeks to depict RS competency through qualitative methods. Through deductive analysis, we examined in-depth interviews from nine parents of 10- to 14-year-olds enrolled in a RS intervention with familial conversations on RD in an urban mid-Atlantic city. Overall, findings support what has been found in quantitative studies of RS competency, particularly that subfactors are related yet unique, parent’s prior experiences impact current practices, and parental concerns for children drive practices and competency. This study also unearthed findings of processes occurring in light of a contentious context for Black adolescents. To our knowledge, this is the first study to qualitatively investigate these emotional and cognitive processes inherent in RS competency, which has future implications for family interventions to disrupt the psychological impact racism exacts on Black adolescents and families.

黑人青年绝大多数经历种族歧视（RD）。种族社会化 (RS)，或家庭之间的种族交流，通过扩大青少年应对策略来减轻 RD 压力。尽管目前大多数黑人父母与他们的孩子讨论种族内容，但对这种 RS品质知之甚少。RS能力的新兴结构，或 RS 传输的技能、信心和压力，探索了这些以情绪为中心的方法。本研究借鉴种族遭遇应对评估和社会化理论 (RECAST)，旨在通过定性方法描述 RS 能力。通过演绎分析，我们对参加 RS 干预的 9 名 10 至 14 岁儿童的父母进行了深入访谈，并在大西洋中部城市的 RD 上进行了家庭对话。总体而言，研究结果支持在 RS 能力的定量研究中发现的内容，特别是子因素相关但独特，父母先前的经验会影响当前的实践，以及父母对儿童驱动实践和能力的关注。这项研究还发现了在黑人青少年有争议的背景下发生的过程的发现。据我们所知，