Most Afro-Brazilian children internalize antiblack stereotypes and pro-white preferences

Evidence

For example, rather than resisting or challenging symbolic hierarchies that esteem whiteness and denigrate blackness, researchers have discovered that the majority of nonwhites in Latin America share and embrace many of the same stereotypes and preferences as whites. … Of 309 students interviewed, 82.9 percent responded by identifying black figures as stupid, as for only 17.1 percent who linked a white figure with stupidity. Only 14.3 percent considered white figures ugly, while 85 percent labelled black figures as such; 5.8 percent identified black figures as people of wealth, whereas 94.2 percent of white figures were identified this way. (Hanchard, 1994:61) Given these antiblack sentiments, it is not surprising that researchers are also learning that many, if not most, nonwhites discriminate against persons of colour, prefer white political representatives, and energetically pursue practices of whitening (i. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3586

Categorization

• SHARE: The Hanchard data (82.9% identifying black figures as stupid) is a striking statistic to send to a friend working on racial attitudes or child development.
• STORYSTEM: The image of young Black children ranking Black figures as stupid and ugly is a harrowing seed for a story about a child absorbing a self-hating worldview through mirrors and classrooms.
• XREF: connects to: Brazilians deny personal prejudice while overwhelmingly endorsing stereotyping beliefs — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1794