CNN.com
May 14, 2010 4:24 p.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
CNN commissioned study on children's racial beliefs, attitudes and preferences
Study shows black and white children are biased toward lighter skin
Test aimed to re-create landmark Doll Test from 1940s
Study also showed children's ideas on race change little between ages 5 and 10
See the results of the CNN-commissioned study on children's racial beliefs, attitudes and preferences, and see the children as they take the test on a special "AC360°" in front of a live studio audience, tonight at 10pm ET
(CNN) -- A white child looks at a picture of a black child and says she's bad because she's black. A black child says a white child is ugly because he's white. A white child says a black child is dumb because she has dark skin.
This isn't a schoolyard fight that takes a racial turn, not a vestige of the "Jim Crow" South; these are American schoolchildren in 2010.
Nearly 60 years after American schools were desegregated by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and more than a year after the election of the country's first black president, white children have an overwhelming white bias, and black children also have a bias toward white, according to a new study commissioned by CNN.
Full Story: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/13/doll.study/index.html
May 14, 2010 4:24 p.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
CNN commissioned study on children's racial beliefs, attitudes and preferences
Study shows black and white children are biased toward lighter skin
Test aimed to re-create landmark Doll Test from 1940s
Study also showed children's ideas on race change little between ages 5 and 10
See the results of the CNN-commissioned study on children's racial beliefs, attitudes and preferences, and see the children as they take the test on a special "AC360°" in front of a live studio audience, tonight at 10pm ET
(CNN) -- A white child looks at a picture of a black child and says she's bad because she's black. A black child says a white child is ugly because he's white. A white child says a black child is dumb because she has dark skin.
This isn't a schoolyard fight that takes a racial turn, not a vestige of the "Jim Crow" South; these are American schoolchildren in 2010.
Nearly 60 years after American schools were desegregated by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and more than a year after the election of the country's first black president, white children have an overwhelming white bias, and black children also have a bias toward white, according to a new study commissioned by CNN.
Full Story: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/13/doll.study/index.html
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