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In the original experiments, the majority of the children chose the white dolls. When Davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll. CNN recreated the doll study in 2010 with cartoons of five children, each with different shades of skin color. [41]
The video begins with interviews with Kiri Davis and her peers about how black features did not conform to society's standards of beauty. The next section was a repeat of an experiment conducted by Kenneth Clark in the 1940s where African-American children were asked to choose between black or white dolls. In the original experiment(s) the ...
The experiment revealed a preference for the white doll for all of the questions and attributed positive attributes to the white dolls. The Clarks concluded that "prejudice, discrimination and segregation" caused black children to develop a sense of inferiority and self-hatred. Phipps Clark concluded, "If society says it is better to be White ...
New 'Doll Test' Produces Ugly Results, August 16, 2006 Baltimore Times. African-American Images: The New Doll Test, October 2, 2006 on Talk of the Nation, NPR. Video: A Girl Like Me, Entire documentary on NAACP website with introductory text. Accessed August 27, 2007. A Girl Like Me: Background a discussion of making the documentary
“I hate dolls,” writer-director Lagueria Davis states early in her debut documentary “Black Barbie.” By turns a celebration and an interrogation (sometime both simultaneously), the film ...
Angela Williams, a Black writer in her 40s, remembers getting her first Black Barbie doll like it was yesterday. “My first Black Barbie came as a hand me down from one of my sisters.
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