In addition, only 22% of YouTube videos preferred by young children (up to age 8) feature a character who is BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) in a prominent role (Rollins et al., 2022). population, they represented only 24% of lead characters on mainstream television in 2019 (Hunt & Ramón, 2020) and 26% of lead characters on children's television in 2018 (Giaccardi et al., 2019). What is the racial landscape youth confront as they use these media? Although ethnic/racial minorities make up 40.2% of the U.S. adolescents approximately 9 h a day (6 h for 8–12 years old Rideout & Robb, 2019), media are especially poised to offer formative information about race. Because the media provide a steady stream of models and are consumed by U.S. Among these environmental forces are the mainstream media, including entertainment media (e.g., TV, movies), news media, and social media. How do youth acquire these beliefs about racial groups? The mechanisms and sociocultural forces driving this early learning are complex and include both specific cognitions that support stereotyping, such as essentialism, and input from models in the environment, starting with the family (Pauker et al., 2010). youth, and White children in particular, often perceive Black and Latinx individuals as less intelligent and nice than White people, associate Blackness with being “bad,” and express more negative attitudes toward and attribute more negative intentions to Black than White peers (Rizzo et al., 2021, 2022).
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