UC Merced

This dissertation examines how Latinx families talk about racial and cultural identity and racism and how these conversations about and experiences with racial and ethnic inclusion and exclusion vary by family and community resources. I conducted 65 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with U.S.-born Latinx children of immigrants from Florida and California, young adult siblings, and parents. My dissertation contributes to research on race and ethnicity by developing the processes of how structural racism unfolds in Latinx families through racial and ethnic socialization and how individual, family, and community resources can help resist racial oppression.