Though there is substantial research on racial socialization in families of color, there is less on such socialization in white families. To investigate racial socialization in white families, the current study analyzed mixed-methods data from 46 mother-adolescent dyads. Though white parents and their adolescent children largely claimed to not talk about race, they in fact communicated about and around race through various strategies that in effect, maintained white privilege and failed to challenge systems of racial oppression. Very few families in our sample discussed racial discrimination or white privilege, and fewer rooted both at the systems level. Our results highlight situations that prompt conversations about race as well as the ways white families talk about and around race and white privilege.

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白人家庭关于种族和围绕种族的交流：白人青少年和他们的母亲之间的对话

尽管对有色人种家庭的种族社会化进行了大量研究，但对白人家庭的这种社会化的研究却较少。为了调查白人家庭的种族社会化，当前的研究分析了来自 46 名母亲-青少年二元组的混合方法数据。尽管白人父母和他们的青春期孩子在很大程度上声称不谈论种族，但他们实际上通过各种策略就种族和围绕种族进行了交流，这些策略实际上保持了白人的特权并且未能挑战种族压迫制度。在我们的样本中，很少有家庭讨论种族歧视或白人特权，很少有家庭在系统层面上讨论过种族歧视或白人特权。我们的研究结果突出了引发关于种族的对话的情况，以及白人家庭谈论和围绕种族和白人特权的方式。