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Kenneth Bancroft Clark And The Doll Experiment

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Kenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark were most well-known for their experiments in the 1940’s using dolls to study children’s ideas, attitudes and opinions about race. The doll experiment proved that the black children preferred the white dolls over the black dolls and that showed how insecure they felt about their color. They felt that the white were beautiful while the black were ugly. In 2005, 17-year-old film student, Kiri Davis, of Manhattan’s Urban Academy duplicated the doll experiment to see how much, if anything had changed regarding children’s perceptions when it comes to skin color and value but the results were still the same. (The Black Institute) “Black” was the opposite of white and proud of it. “Negro”, meanwhile,
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