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Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin
(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.

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Renowned child psychologist and University of Chicago professor Margaret Beale Spencer, a leading researcher in the field of child development, led the study. She designed the pilot study and led a team of three psychologists: two testers to execute the study and a statistician to help analyze the results.

Her team tested 133 children from schools that met very specific economic and demographic requirements. In total, eight schools participated: four in the greater New York City area and four in Georgia.

Full doll study results

In each school, Spencer tested children from two age groups: 4 to 5 and 9 to 10.

Since this is a pilot study and not a fully funded scientific study, the sample size and race selection were limited. But according to Spencer, it was satisfactory to yield conclusive results. A pilot study is normally the first step in creating a larger scientific study and often speaks to overall trends that require more research.

Spencer's test aimed to re-create the landmark Doll Test from the 1940s. Those tests, conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, were designed to measure how segregation affected African-American children.

The Clarks asked black children to choose between a white doll and -- because at the time, no brown dolls were available -- a white doll painted brown. They asked black children a series of questions and found they overwhelmingly preferred white over brown. The study and its conclusions were used in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the desegregation of American schools.

1947 Doll Test results

In the new study, Spencer's researchers asked the younger children a series of questions and had them answer by pointing to one of five cartoon pictures that varied in skin color from light to dark. The older children were asked the same questions using the same cartoon pictures, and were then asked a series of questions about a color bar chart that showed light to dark skin tones.

The tests showed that white children, as a whole, responded with a high rate of what researchers call "white bias," identifying the color of their own skin with positive attributes and darker skin with negative attributes. Spencer said even black children, as a whole, have some bias toward whiteness, but far less than white children.

"All kids on the one hand are exposed to the stereotypes" she said. "What's really significant here is that white children are learning or maintaining those stereotypes much more strongly than the African-American children. Therefore, the white youngsters are even more stereotypic in their responses concerning attitudes, beliefs and attitudes and preferences than the African-American children."

Spencer says this may be happening because "parents of color in particular had the extra burden of helping to function as an interpretative wedge for their children. Parents have to reframe what children experience ... and the fact that white children and families don't have to engage in that level of parenting, I think, does suggest a level of entitlement. You can spend more time on spelling, math and reading, because you don't have that extra task of basically reframing messages that children get from society."

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Spencer was also surprised that children's ideas about race, for the most part, don't evolve as they get older. The study showed that children's ideas about race change little from age 5 to age 10.

"The fact that there were no differences between younger children, who are very spontaneous because of where they are developmentally, versus older children, who are more thoughtful, given where they are in their thinking, I was a little surprised that we did not find differences."

Spencer said the study points to major trends but is not the definitive word on children and race. It does lead her to conclude that even in 2010, "we are still living in a society where dark things are devalued and white things are valued."
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there you go.
 
Steinhauer said:
If one thinks they can get out of breaking the law by being given preferential treatment based on their race, they will scream "racism!" to anyone who will listen.

Even if the actions taken were not racist ....

Now come on ..... how many deafies do you know who also play the system to their advantage?
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See my post...I said the same thing. It goes both ways.
 
Jiro said:
Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin


there you go.
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This is one of the issues that I have with my sons right now. They live with their father who....well....let's just say that he has found 'nicer' (still is not right to use them anyways) names to call people of other color and quite often subjects the boys to it in public.

My significant other is of Hispanic descent, his father is Hispanic. They (my sons) thought hispanics were 'mud sharks' and 'steal from white people all the time', until they met him and his father. They are discovering a lot of new and interesting things about the Hispanic Culture, as well as other cultures, inlcuding Deaf Culture.

They learned just the other day how to make homemade tortillas with both my sig other and his father and they (my sons) enjoyed the time they spent with them. :aw:
 
Jiro said:
there you go.
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I have black friends who are very open about their preferences for more light-skinned mates for their family members.
 
Then there are white people who prefer to date darker skinned people.

:fruit:

No big deal there.
 
souggy said:
That's my point.

Somehow people are still in an oppressive environment that they feel the need to falsely accuse others. If they weren't, we wouldn't have false accusations.
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Many do......which again goes to deafies being in a similar situation as racial minorities

Job discrimination.....Check
Feeling oppressed by society.......check
Communication difficulties.......check
being judged..............check

And both minorities and deafies suffer these things due to issues beyond their control. As for deafies being killied off or exiled due to being deaf....that happened too. It's just much farther back in history.


Granted not all deafies feel this way.....but not all minorities feel this way either.
 
kokonut said:
Then there are white people who prefer to date darker skinned people.

:fruit:

No big deal there.
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that's usually white MEN preferring to date darker skinned WOMEN. big difference there.
 
TXgolfer said:
Many do......which again goes to deafies being in a similar situation as racial minorities

Job discrimination.....Check
Feeling oppressed by society.......check
Communication difficulties.......check
being judged..............check

And both minorities and deafies suffer these things due to issues beyond their control. As for deafies being killied off or exiled due to being deaf....that happened too. It's just much farther back in history.
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nope. not the same thing.

TXgolfer said:
Granted not all deafies feel this way.....but not all minorities feel this way either.
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obviously not all but MAJORITY. a significant majority.
 
Reba said:
I have black friends who are very open about their preferences for more light-skinned mates for their family members.
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yes - not surprising. there's even a racism within black people.

Too Dark
Black
Light-Skinned Black
 
souggy said:
What about the stereotypes of black men with white women?
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no it's not the stereotype. it's the exhibition of social status. That "black men with white women" does not bode well with many wherever you go most of time.
 
souggy said:
What about the stereotypes of black men with white women?
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Which is why it's better to avoid such stereotyping. People have their dislikes and likes when it comes to dating/marrying people of a different color. It goes both ways for men and women.
 
Jiro said:
nope. not the same thing. .
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I disagree. I have discussed it with many of my minority friends. They agree that it is very similar as well.

And just like there is racism in a minority (dark vs light) there are some that have problems in the deaf community (D vs LD, Aided vs unaided)

The similarities are almost endless.
 
Man ... I really crossed cultural boundaries when I dated a .............. yankee









:lol:
 
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