Comments on: Kids’ Thoughts about Skin Color and Beauty

By: Billy Meier - Page 6 - Alien UFOs

Billy Meier - Page 6 - Alien UFOs — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:11:25 +0000

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By: Framing Children’s Deviance | Love Isn't Enough - on raising a family in a colorstruck world

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:17:47 +0000

[...] have shown that they often internalize this idea, as in the famous doll experiment in which both black and white children were more likely than not to identify the black doll as bad (see this similar demonstration of white preference on CNN and a discussion of the original doll [...]

By: hanana

hanana — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:38:22 +0000

skinnier and richer, unfortunately.

By: Children’s Attitudes toward Skin Color » Sociological Images « Firesaw

Children’s Attitudes toward Skin Color » Sociological Images « Firesaw — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:46:57 +0000

[...] posts: another recreation, and the original study. via [...]

By: Children’s Attitudes toward Skin Color » Sociological Images

Children’s Attitudes toward Skin Color » Sociological Images — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:17:20 +0000

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By: monkey

monkey — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:18:30 +0000

with globalisation, wat is happening is that fair skin is being favored even in countries where the majority population is dark skinned. prob of the pervasiveness of media, tourism etc or perhaps the minority fair skin population in these countries are the ones who are well to do, etc. at least in Asia/southeast Asia this is happening. could be legacy of colonialism as well but historically n culturally, fairness is also considered a quality of beauty for the east Asians for signifying wealth n not having to labor under the sun as a peasant etc

By: The Walmart Barbie Scandal » Sociological Images

The Walmart Barbie Scandal » Sociological Images — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:32:03 +0000

[...] more than they could sell (high supply) and so the doll went on sale. In fact, we know that people of all colors tend to absorb a color hierarchy in which whiteness is nicer, more beautiful, a… (test your unconscious preferences here), so maybe the white doll WAS outselling the non-white doll [...]

By: Sociological Images » Race, Class, and Skin Color in the Movie “Precious”

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:05:39 +0000

[...] see our posts on kids’ perceptions of skin color and attractiveness, an ad for skin lightener, a club letting light-skinned girls in for free, Malaysian anti-racism [...]

By: Sociological Images » The Price Of Profits: Are Black Dolls “Worth Less” Than White Dolls?

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:52:34 +0000

[...] at It’s The The Thought That Counts says that the prices reminded her of a short video about children and their doll preferences. In the video, many black children understand that the black dolls were meant to represent them, [...]

By: It’s the Thought that Counts » Blog Archive » Attempting equality

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:12:26 +0000

[...] v. Board of Education and recreated by ABC News and others, which I read about not too long ago at Sociological Images. While it maybe less universal than it was a few decades ago, many black children will [...]

By: Cedar

Cedar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:51:05 +0000

I know this is only one kid, and therefore not indicative of a larger societal change, but I just want to share this study. I work at an after school program, and was helping a black second grade girl fill out a survey for the program including a question about race. She was confused by it, because one of her grandparents was white, and didn’t know whether she should put white and black. And here’s the thing: she REALLY wanted to put black; she liked being black, she identified as black, she thought being black was really cool. But she also liked her grandma. After much hemming and hewing, she finally decided that she thought of herself as black, and she was really happy with that. I had watched this video for the first time not too long before this interaction, and I found it heartening.

By: Dubi

Dubi — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:28:59 +0000

mike – wanting to look different, yes, but in which direction? If black girls want to be whiter with straight hair, and brunettes want blond hair, and if girls with wavy hair want straight hair – we can see a pattern. Now, the question is, what do blonds with straight hair want to be like?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:55:35 +0000

it’s not that it’s a two-way street, but the desire to look different and unique from one’s race is hardly limited to black girls.

By: Bagelsan

Bagelsan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:55:33 +0000

don’t forget too that kids all too often just want to be different– kids with brown eyes want to have blue eyes, girls with straight hair want it to be curly and vice versa.

Yeah, but I’m white and somehow my desire to look different *never* took the form of darker skin/darker eyes/wider nose/curlier hair… Anything but. I wanted straighter hair. I was proud of my bright blue eyes. I was praised for my very smooth light skin. Sometimes I wanted to be blond. No one ever suggested that I’d look prettier if I tried to look blacker (I’m sure it never even occurred to them as a goal at all!); the pressure to conform is definitely not a 2-way street, with girls of different races swapping in equal numbers.

By: macon d

macon d — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:40:32 +0000

Thanks for the link to the “Good Morning America” piece. I thought it was a horrific effort to put a good spin on things.

I gather you couldn’t embed it? I poked around at the site and tried to figure out how to do so–if anyone can figure that out, I’d appreciate hearing how to do it, as I’d like to post that segment on my blog.