In the Clark doll studies, a majority of Black children ages 3-7 preferred the White doll and rejected the Black doll, evidencing internalized inferiority from institutionalized racism.
Evidence
70 Years After Brown v. Board, Dolls Research Still Sheds Light on Black Children’s Well-being (Child Trends)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; A majority of Black children aged 3-7 preferred the white doll and assigned positive characteristics to it, leading the Clarks to conclude segregation created a feeling of inferiority. — https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test; The Clarks found most Black children preferred white dolls and assigned negative traits to Black ones, and black children in integrated 21st-century schools still view their Blackness negatively. — https://theconversation.com/what-i-learned-when-i-recreated-the-famous-doll-test-that-looked-at-how-black-kids-see-race-153780
Related
- A majority of Black children aged 3-7 preferred the white doll and assigned positive characteristics to it, leading the Clarks to conclude segregation created a feeling of inferiority. (similarity 0.98)
- The Clarks found most Black children preferred white dolls and assigned negative traits to Black ones, and black children in integrated 21st-century schools still view their Blackness negatively. (similarity 0.97)
- The Brown decision’s damaged-self-esteem claim rested on the Clark doll studies (similarity 0.83)
- Doll-choice tests prove to be an imprecise measure of racial identity. (similarity 0.81)
- The doll studies’ method of measuring racial identity was imprecise (similarity 0.80)
- Doll-test results depend on experimenter race and learning environment, not just damaged identity (similarity 0.80)