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In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children.
Drs. Clark used four dolls, identical except for color, to test children’s racial perceptions.
They used black kids ages 3-7; tested some kids who went to school in intergrated schools and tested some kids that were in segregated schools. Roughly half and half.
They would ask the kids,
1. What doll do you want to play with.
2. Give me a nice doll.
3. Give me a bad doll
4. Give me a nice colored doll
5. Give me a doll that looks like a white child
7. Give me a doll that looks like a negro child
8. Give me a doll that looks like you.
The kids in northern states associated whites with nice good things and some of the kids then ran or would cry when they would pick the doll that looks like them. Because they associated black with Bad.
Meanwhile the southern kids would associate the nice good dolls with black. And when asked what dolls was them they would justify why they picked the black dolls with things like "I'm only black because I have a tan."
Southern kids Either way were influenced by racism to not want to be black but they didnt hate themselves and boast whites above them.
I found this experiment powerful as fuck.
I took my nephew to school one day and saw one white kid in the whole class and he was new and was tripping off the other kids asking them if their skin was real 😂 things are becoming backwards now.
I dont have a question, I just want to know your thoughts on this experiment. I feel ending slavery was of course positive. But intergrating kids made everyone put whites above them and make them feel less than, even as young as 3 they were influenced, compared to all black schools who had pride in who they were.
In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children.
Drs. Clark used four dolls, identical except for color, to test children’s racial perceptions.
They used black kids ages 3-7; tested some kids who went to school in intergrated schools and tested some kids that were in segregated schools. Roughly half and half.
They would ask the kids,
1. What doll do you want to play with.
2. Give me a nice doll.
3. Give me a bad doll
4. Give me a nice colored doll
5. Give me a doll that looks like a white child
7. Give me a doll that looks like a negro child
8. Give me a doll that looks like you.
The kids in northern states associated whites with nice good things and some of the kids then ran or would cry when they would pick the doll that looks like them. Because they associated black with Bad.
Meanwhile the southern kids would associate the nice good dolls with black. And when asked what dolls was them they would justify why they picked the black dolls with things like "I'm only black because I have a tan."
Southern kids Either way were influenced by racism to not want to be black but they didnt hate themselves and boast whites above them.
I found this experiment powerful as fuck.
I took my nephew to school one day and saw one white kid in the whole class and he was new and was tripping off the other kids asking them if their skin was real 😂 things are becoming backwards now.
I dont have a question, I just want to know your thoughts on this experiment. I feel ending slavery was of course positive. But intergrating kids made everyone put whites above them and make them feel less than, even as young as 3 they were influenced, compared to all black schools who had pride in who they were.
