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While there is a limited body of literature on racial socialization in schools (Park, 2011; Priest, Walton, White, Kowal, Baker, & Paradies, 2016; Van Ausdale & Feagin, 2001) and white racial socialization in the home (Bartoli et al., 2016; Miller, 2015; Vittrup & Holden, 2011), this study examines the ways white children come to understand race in the context of an emergent antiracist home curriculum. Using a critical sociocultural orientation, this study employs parent child autoethnography and poetic inquiry to demonstrate how two white children used race words, metaphor, analogy, and political action to construct understandings of race.","abstract_html":"Despite attempts by white teachers and families to avoid talk about race (Apfelbaum, Paulker, Ambady, Sommers, &amp; Norton, 2008; Bartoli, Michael, Bentley Edwards, Stevenson, Shor, &amp; McClain, 2016; Boutte, López-Robertson, &amp; Powers Costello, 2011; Lesane-Brown, Brown, Tanner-Smith, &amp; Bruce, 2010; Pahlke, Bigler, &amp; Suizzo, 2012; Vittrup &amp; Holden, 2010), children learn race and racism at a young age (Derman-Sparks &amp; Edwards, 2010; Miller, 2015; Park, 2011; Van Ausdale &amp; Feagin, 2001). While there is a limited body of literature on racial socialization in schools (Park, 2011; Priest, Walton, White, Kowal, Baker, &amp; Paradies, 2016; Van Ausdale &amp; Feagin, 2001) and white racial socialization in the home (Bartoli et al., 2016; Miller, 2015; Vittrup &amp; Holden, 2011), this study examines the ways white children come to understand race in the context of an emergent antiracist home curriculum. Using a critical sociocultural orientation, this study employs parent child autoethnography and poetic inquiry to demonstrate how two white children used race words, metaphor, analogy, and political action to construct understandings of race.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Thomas, Rhianna Kay"],"institution":"University of Missouri -- Kansas City","degree_name":"Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy )","degree_level":"Doctoral","degree_discipline":"Curriculum and Instruction (UMKC)","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":[],"advisors":["Nash, Kindel A. 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