Resumen

SOTELO NAVARRO, Hazael  y  RIVERA VAZQUEZ, Natanael. Racial awareness in a Veracruz children sample. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.2, pp.2658-2666. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aipprr.2017.05.003.

Discrimination related to ethnic origins in Mexico is a documented topic as the Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación (CONAPRED) reports. Understanding oneself as a member of an ethnic group and categorizing others and their groups is denominated “Racial Awareness” (Clark & Clark, 1939, 1947, 1950). Greenfield (2009) proposed that socialization patterns are modified by the sociodemographic changes in the socialization media. This study was bases on Clark and Clark studies (1939, 1947, 1950) adding a doll phenotypically similar to the 64% of the considered “brunette” Mexican population. The experiment was applied to 180 first graders at the central zone of the State of Veracruz in “mestizo nahua” phenotypical children (Buentello, Peñaloza, Salamanca & Sanabria, 2005), 90 from urban media and 90 from rural media, that despite of sharing the ethnic origin, are socialized differently. The stablished comparison objective was to check if actually there are significant differences in the Racial Awareness development, measured by: attitudes and prejudice towards Racial Groups, Racial Groups Identification and Racial Autoidentification. No significant differences were found among the socialization media; the general tendency was to associate “the whiter” choices with the positive terms and the negative terms with “the darker” choices.

Palabras llave : Awareness; Race; Socialization; Psychology; Mexico.