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  Title

  What the children told us : the untold story of the famous "doll test" and the Black psychologists who changed the world

  Author

  Spofford, Tim,  

  Publisher:

  Sourcebooks,

  Pub date:

  [2022]

  Pages:

  xiii, 345 pages :

  ISBN:

  9781728248073

  Item info:

  3 copies in Central Library, Kempsville Area Library, and Joint Use Library.
  

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    Central Library	Copies	Material	Location
    150.92 S762W	1	Book	Shelves    Text It!
    Joint Use Library	Copies	Material	Location
    150.92 S762W	1	Book	Shelves    Text It!
    Kempsville Area Library	Copies	Material	Location
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  What the children told us : the untold story of the famous "doll test" and the Black psychologists who changed the world
  Spofford, Tim,
  

  Personal Author:

  Spofford, Tim,

  Title:

  What the children told us : the untold story of the famous "doll test" and the Black psychologists who changed the world / Tim Spofford.

  Prod, Pub, Dist, Man:

  Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2022]

  Physical description:

  xiii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

  Summary:

  "Dr. Kenneth Clark visited run-down and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. "Give me the doll you like to play with," he said. "Give me the doll that is a nice doll." The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to measure how segregation affected Black children's perceptions of themselves and other Black people, was enlightening--and horrifying. Over and over again, the young children--some not yet five years old--selected the white doll as preferable and the brown doll as "bad". Some children even denied their race. "Yes," said brown-skinned Joan W., age six, when questioned about her affection for the light-skinned doll. "I would like to be white." What the Children Told Us is the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the psychological effects of racial segregation." -- Book jacket.

  Held by:

  CENTRAL KEMPSVILLE JUL

  Personal subject:

  Clark, Mamie Phipps.

  Personal subject:

  Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005.

  Subject term:

  Psychologists--United States--Biography.

  Subject term:

  African American psychologists--Biography.

  Subject term:

  African Americans--Civil rights.

  Subject term:

  Child psychology.

  Genre index term:

  Biographies.