What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous Doll Test and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World Spofford Tim
What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous Doll Test and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World Spofford Tim Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self?The…
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What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous Doll Test and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World Spofford Tim
Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self?The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.Dr. "Give me the doll you like to play with," he said. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black.
Over and over again, the young children--some not yet five years old--selected the white doll as preferable, and the brown doll as "bad." Some children even denied their race. "Give me the doll that is a nice doll." The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to measure how segregation affected Black children's perception of themselves and other Black people, was enlightening--and horrifying. "Yes," said brown-skinned Joan W., age six, when