Table 2.

Children’s Reasoning for Why They Did or Did Not Mention Race by Child Race

	Mentioned Race				Total	Did not Mention Race				Total
	Latino	Asian	Black	White		Latino	Asian	Black	White
Social-focused concerns
Self-focused concern (g)	.06 (.25)	0	0	.10 (.32)	.05 (22)	.36 (.49)	.15 (.38)	.33 (.49)	.43 (.51)	.33 (.47)
Other-focused concern (g)	.19 (.40)	0	0	0	.07 (.26)	.24 (.44)	.46 (.52)	.33 (.49)	.21 (.43)	.30 (.46)
Inappropriate, rude, offensive (s)	.19 (.40)	.25 (.46)	0	.10 (.32)	.15 (.36)	.56 (.51)	.62 (.51)	.67 (.49)	.50 (.52)	.58 (.50)
Racist, prejudice (s)	0	.13 (.35)	0	0	.02 (.16)	.24 (.44)	.08 (.28)	.25 (.45)	.36 (.50)	.23 (.43)
Task-focused concerns
Good strategy (g)	.56 (.51)	.50 (.54)	.43 (.54)	.50 (.53)	.51 (.51)	.04 (.20)	.08 (.28)	.17 (.39)	0	.06 (.24)
Other questions were better (s)	.13 (.34)	.13 (.35)	0	0	.07 (.26)	.20 (.41)	0	0	.29 (.47)	.14 (.35)
Racial/ethnic differences are apparent (s)	.44 (.51)	.38 (.52)	.57 (.54)	.60 (.52)	.49 (.51)	0	.15 (.38)	0	0	.03 (.18)
Miscellaneous
Unsure, no answer	0	.13 (.35)	.29 (.49)	.10 (.32)	.10 (.30)	.12 (.33)	0	0	0	.05 (.21)

Note: Means indicate proportion of children in a category that expressed a particular type of reasoning. (g) denotes general concerns. (s) denotes specific concerns. General concerns encompassed some specific concerns. Some children’s responses presented multiple types of reasoning.