How Black Children View White Children...
I've linked to this short film by Kiri Davis in the past. Kiri is a teenage filmmaker who read about an experiment done in the sixties asking black children to play with a white doll and a black doll, and then identify which one they liked better. Kiri updated the experiment and videotaped the results.
Now, a local news channel has done a great piece about the film. Check it out.
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It would be interesting to see this study replicated among different race groups with different types of dolls, with different socioeconomic levels, with different regions of the country, with different "aged" dolls, with even pets (white dogs and black dogs)...even among blacks, whites, asians, from other countries...
What would 21 white kids say?
The most interesting observation is that the kids in this video are very, very different than the kids that I teach everyday.
That was one of my first thoughts too. Its easy to forget that most highschoolers aren't anything like ours...