ABSTRACT
Research on children's experiences with discrimination is a relatively new topic within developmental science, with the bulk of the research beginning at the start of the new millennium. This chapter describes some of these earliest studies, with a focus on the pivotal research highlighting discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and sexual orientation. With racial discrimination, the focus of research was often on how structural and institutional inequality harmed Black children, perhaps because the research began as part of the civil rights movement, which was focused on ending school segregation. With immigrant discrimination, the focus was more often on how immigrant children either assimilated or did not into the dominant culture and the implications for future discrimination. This perhaps is a reflection of the great variability in the processes and experiences of immigration, and researchers' recognition that different immigrant groups had very different experiences with discrimination.
