The Doll Experiment: Racial Stereotypes

the media has on individuals is, “The Doll Test”. “The Doll Test” is an experiment which was conducted by doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark in the 1940s. The experiment was conducted to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children. The Clarks took a group of children between the ages of three and seven, and gave them two different dolls, which were identical except for their skin color goal of the experiment was to use four dolls which were identical excluding its skin

particularly moving. There were the doll studies, conducted by Mamie and Kenneth Clark, and call back rate research, found by Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan. Both experiments are relevant to today’s society and their results can be helpful to those on a college campus. In the doll studies, African American children ranging from ages three to seven years old were presented with a White and Black doll in front of them. Then, they were allowed to choose which doll they wanted

able to recognize negative impacts of rhetoric so that the mind is not easily persuaded with misconception. One of the negative effects of persuasion through the media is racial stereotyping. This research paper aims to acknowledge and debunk racial stereotypes. Due to negative uses of rhetoric in the media, racial stereotypes are done unintentionally, can harm one's self image, and can reinforce prejudices. Rhetoric in the media can be used to persuade people to think, act, or buy a certain way

The black doll test was first performed in the 1940s by Drs. Kenneth Bancroft and Mamie Phipp Clark. The test consisted of selecting random Afro-American girls and giving them a white and a black doll with the purpose of identifying each one as either the good or the bad doll. The result was that every girl chose the black doll as the bad one and the white doll as the nice and good doll. The article, Black doll collection goes on display in South Florida, by Cynthia Roby, describes the remake of

their Clark Doll experiment, an experiment that would later be used in of the most landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown vs. the Board of Education. Racism was of common knowledge among those in the United States in 1939. The Clark’s were extremely aware of this and for Dr. Mamie Clark’s master’s degree thesis the monumental experimental case study was born. The experiment, the Clark Doll Test, involved a children ages black children ages six to nine being presented a choice of two dolls that were identical

groups of people. Types of oppression that can result from the media include, but are not limited to, internalized oppression and interpersonal oppression. Internalized oppression is when a member of an oppressed group believes and acts out the stereotypes created about their group. Interpersonal oppression, on the other hand, is the belief that one group of people are superior to another group of people. Essentially, the media broadcasts ideas from interpersonal oppression and causes internalized

self-esteem have all been the focus of studies focused on ethnic and racial identity. Through the research of scholarly articles and publications, evidence has been found to show that the intersection of the racial and ethnic identity of an individual both shapes and affects their personal growth and development in childhood and adolescence (Rivas-Drake, et al.). According to French, et al., this has been a more recent conversation with racial preference being researched in the 1940’s and 1950’s using

find out in the experiment and how variables are connected. 3A- A hypothesis is different from a theory because a hypothesis is just a testable guess or predictions of what the researcher would probably find during the experiment and a theory is a tested statement that explains observations already made. 4A- An experiment is a research method where the researcher manipulates one variable to see the results in other or to see if there is change between the two variables. 4B- Experiment is the only method

Within the past several years, it seems as though racial tensions in the United States has made a very prominent reappearance. Social media has played a major part in bringing these events to the forefront of our social conscience. However, this seemingly “shocking” reappearance is anything but. The United States is a country that has such a decided issue with internalized and systematic racism that it seems absurd for so many citizens to be shocked by recent events. Trayvon Martin, John Crawford

history classes speed through from slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement as a way to honor Black History Month; while important cases involving racism, like Brown vs. Board, Brown II, the case of Emmett Till, and the Clark experiment are often times left out because of the negative outlook it has on American society. In this paper I will utilize Scarry’s argument on the ‘right to exit’ and Curtis’s theory of human superfluous in order to better