I consider myself to have been racially socialized and socialized under The Symbolic Interaction theories for Gender Roles. I was racially socialized early on in my life, my mom talked to me about my racial identity when I was four years old. I had experienced a situation in preschool where another child had told me that she did not want to play with because I was “brown” I was very confused from that situation because didn’t understand what it meant to be “brown” or why that little girl didn’t want to play with me because I was “brown.” That day after the incident I cried to my mother about it, and then she told me that certain people will treat you differently because of the way you look, and she told me that I shouldn’t feel insecure or