U. Minnesota Profs Enter Third Year of Study on ‘Antiracist Parenting’
“an antiracist parenting intervention for White mothers of young White children”
What an utter waste of time and money. And yet the study will probably be hailed as a success.
The College Fix reports:
U. Minnesota professors studying ‘antiracist parenting’ for white moms
A University of Minnesota professor and her team are facing criticism for their ongoing “antiracist parenting” research, funded by a nearly $600,000 grant.
Gail Ferguson, a professor in the university’s Institute of Child Development, and her team are entering their third and final year of research with a $599,932 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation.
Their study is about “White parents’ racial identity and how they socialize their children on the topics of race, racism, and antiracism,” according to a news release.
The research centers on “an antiracist parenting intervention for White mothers of young White children” called CARPE DIEM, the release states. It stands for “Courageous, Antiracist, and Reflective Parenting Efforts – Deepening Intentionality with Each Moment,” according to the webpage for the study.
Two other professors, Melissa Koenig and Charisse Pickron, also are participating in the research. The College Fix emailed Ferguson, Koenig, and Pickron, as well as the Institute of Child Development, asking for comment on the research. Pickron was the only one to respond; she directed The Fix to the media relations team, which also did not respond.
Meanwhile, Monica Harris, executive director of FAIR For All, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that stands against identity-based practices, expressed concern about the study being conducted by a public institution.
“FAIR’s mission is to advance civil rights and oppose discrimination based on race or other immutable characteristics,” she said in an email to The Fix.
“We have concerns about interventions conducted at public universities that target individuals based solely on their race, in this case ‘White mothers’ and their children, as this approach risks reinforcing the very racial categorizations that contribute to bias rather than reducing them,” Harris said.
She continued, “Decades of research in social psychology demonstrate that effective bias reduction emphasizes our shared humanity and common values.”
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
somalian financial spending ….
how many “business’ trips luncheons etc
all fraud all the time
If these a$$hats want to have input on how people raise their kids, they should have their own kids and leave everyone else alone.
“Their study is about “White parents’ racial identity and how they socialize their children on the topics of race, racism, and antiracism,”
Know what would make a great study? Studying the difference in what those teachings were 30 years ago with what they have turned into today. I bet you hive-pokers could learn a LOT from that study (but won’t).
“an antiracist parenting intervention for White mothers of young White children”
(Samuel L. Jackson): “You’re here for what? An intervention? I don’t remember asking you for a goddamn thing!”
A look at the WT Grant Fdn site: they fund “studies that build or test strategies to improve use of existing research in policy or practice.”
(could that be existing research on white parents being racists?)
and
“studies that test whether and how strategies that improve the use of research evidence in turn improve decision making and youth outcomes.”
IOW, they want to improve “youth outcomes” in families with racist white parents, based on “research evidence.” Is that it??