“The Talk I Received From My Parents, I Gave to My Little Brother”: Black Emerging Adults’ Experiences of Intergenerational and Bidirectional Racial Socialization

Betty L. Wilson, Ashley Jackson, Mia Brantley, Julisa Tindall, College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University

Journal of Black Psychology

Published online on October 19, 2025

Abstract

Journal of Black Psychology, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 490-533, July 2026.
While much literature examines racial socialization in Black families, specifically “the Talk,” few studies focus on this process during emerging adulthood. Guided by relational communication and racism-related stress theories, this qualitative study ...