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Racial Preferences Expressed for Peers and Adults by Preschool Children
Author(s) -
Kliman Deborah S.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7700500301
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , psychology , developmental psychology , perception , black male , chose , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , gene , political science , law
Twenty‐four black and 24 white 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children in four child care centers were questioned with a semistructured, doll‐play interview about theirskin color preferences for peer and adult dolls. The white children chose white dolls significantly more often than black dolls on every question. Black children preferred b lack peer dolls, but showed no sig nificant difference in their choice of black or white adult dolis. The results were discussed in terms of the increasingly favorable perceptions shown by black children for others of like skin color and the implications for selection of adult role‐models.