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Doll Play and A Child's Self-Image
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The Washington Post
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September 9, 1991
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Parents can learn a lot about their children's self-image and
their racial view of the world by watching them play with dolls of
various skin hues and hair textures. Researchers continue to be
surprised at how many black children prefer white dolls.
It seems not much has changed since psychologist Kenneth Clark
performed the famous doll studies nearly 50 years ago in which black
children overwhelming selected white dolls and considered them more
desireable than their darker counterparts.
Six years ago, clinical psychologists Darlene Powell Hopson and
Derek Hopson repeated the Clark study. In their recently released
findings, the Hopsons reported that not only did 65 percent of the ...
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