'The talk': risk, racism and family relationships

Baderin, A. (2023) 'The talk': risk, racism and family relationships. Political Studies, 71 (4). pp. 1347-1364. ISSN 0032-3217 doi: 10.1177/00323217221074894

Abstract/Summary

Parents employ a wide range of anticipatory strategies to prepare their children for, and protect them against, risks of racism. This paper argues that, whilst black children need to be equipped with the skills and understanding to navigate racist societies, these practices are also the site of a significant injustice for minority families. Specifically, the imperative to take strategic steps to protect children against threats of racism creates unfair barriers to the enjoyment of some valuable relationship-based goods. In advancing this argument, the paper brings recent philosophical work on the family into dialogue with a rapidly developing body of empirical research on racial and ethnic socialization. I show that Brighouse and Swift’s “familial relationship goods” framework generates a valuable new perspective on some contested empirical terrain. But I also highlight, and seek to begin to redress, a problematic silence on race within contemporary philosophy of the family.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/103963
Identification Number/DOI	10.1177/00323217221074894
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Politics and International Relations
Publisher	Sage
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